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Quote by Herman Melville
A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than the former his vows of allegiance to martial duty. – Herman Melville

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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. – Herman Melville

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The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

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The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians. – Angelina Grimke

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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being. – Mahatma Gandhi

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The only thing thats been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. – Joan Baez

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