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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? – Alan Paton

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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. – Alan Paton

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Wisdom
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Alan Paton
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up ones responsibility as a free man. – Alan Paton

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Society
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Violence
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Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. – Gandhi

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Violence

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow

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Violence

Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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Violence

I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. – Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948), in Young India, 1925

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Violence

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To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something. – Shel Silverstein

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Knowledge

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. – George Washington

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A childs education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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