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Quote by Thomas Hobbes
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. – Thomas Hobbes

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Fear
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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

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War
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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war and such a war, as if of every man, against every man. – Thomas Hobbes

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power
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The old fun thing is when somebody typed up the first chapter of War and Peace. And then made a precis of the rest of it and sent it out and only one publisher recognized it. – Jim Harrison

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Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. – Etty Hillesum

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Peace

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Peace

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. – Carlos Santana

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Peace

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All quiet along the Potomac to-night, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the pickets off duty forever. – Ethel Lynn Beers

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. – Jeanette Rankin

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