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Ethical Quotes
Peace Quotes:
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"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
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"There never was a good war or a bad peace"
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
- Buddha
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"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Live simply so that others may simply live"
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Peace can not be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein
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"If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
- John Lennon
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy"
- George Bernard Shaw
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Animal Rights / Vegan / Vegetarian Quotes:
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-Albert Einstein
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"We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could."
- James Cromwell
"Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all living beings, we are all savages."
- Thomas Edison, inventor
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"The question is not, can they reason? nor, can they talk? but, can they suffer?"
-Jeremy Bentham
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"As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
- Pythagorus
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"Flesh-eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling--killing."
- Count Leo Tolstoy, great Russian philosopher
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"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite".
- Leo Tolstoy
"It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts - more clearly than in any book - that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans."
-Leo Tolstoy
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
- Leo Tolstoy, author
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The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of great compassion.
- Mahaparinirvana (Buddhist)
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
-Harvey Diamond
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act, which is contrary to moral feeling: killing. By killing, man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity, that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself and by violating his own feelings becomes cruel.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow man."
- St. Francis of Assisi
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
-Thomas Edison
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
- Buddha
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you-alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
How can you eat anything with eyes?
-Will Kellogg
A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
-David Brenner
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
-Albert Schweitzer
We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It is our duty to make the whole world recognize it. Until we extend our circle of compassion to all living things, humanity will not find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer, The Philosophy of Civilization
"The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies."
-Dr Albert Schweizer
"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
-Dr Albert Schweizer
"It is a human beings sympathy with all creatures that makes a truly human being."
-Dr Albert Schweizer
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
- Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
- Edwin Way Teale, Circle of the Seasons, 1953
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
- Bradley Millar
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made [man] is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.
- Mark Twain
"Whenever people say "we must be unsentimental" you can take it to mean they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, "we must be realistic" they mean they are going to make money out of it.'
-Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) - British author
"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs as our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear."
-Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is life's greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life's scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature that owns it than the largest."
-Lloyd Buggle Jr
"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals ) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it... If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."
-St Francis of Assisi
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- "All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
- "To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to Nirvana."
- "May all that have life be delivered from suffering."
-Buddha
"One common response is 'I don't want to know .I don't want to know.'
"Cruelty to animals is an abuse of power, and when people take advantage of animals and do cruel and wicked things to them, they debase themselves."
-Thomas Scully (senior speech writer for George W. Bush)
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of the whole human being.
-Abraham Lincoln
"If the environment is destroyed, humans will be destroyed, too. Protecting human life is not possible without also protecting the lives of animals, plants, and minerals."
-Thich Nhat Hanh The First Precept is the practice of protecting all lives, including the lives of minerals. "I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life."
-The First Precept in Bu
"In their behaviour toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
"People often say that humans have always eaten animals as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
"To be a vegetarian is to disagree -- to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars -- we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one."
-Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
- George Bernard Shaw
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"I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses?"
- George Bernard Shaw
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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity"
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends"
- George Bernard Shaw
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
- William S. Gilbert
Support your right to arm bears.
- Cleveland Amory (Thank you, Leslie.)
In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.
- John Sawhill, The Nature Conservancy
Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.
- Kenyan Proverb
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian.
- Sir Paul McCartney
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
- Willam Penn
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
- Albert Einstein
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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When a chimpanzee mother comforts her frightened infant,we say that she is behaving like a human; when a human being resorts to insane violence, we say that he is acting like an animal. Perhaps it's the other way around...
- Wayne Grady
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
-Paul Rodrigue
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I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
-Ellen DeGeneres
"By "everything is wrong" I mean EVERYTHING. I look around me - I'm typing on a plastic and metal and glass computer perched on a desk made from cut down trees and toxic paint. I sit in a building made of wood and bricks that were taken from the earth on a street made of poisonous asphalt that was laid over an ecosystem that had thrived for hundreds of thousands of years. I'm clothed in cotton that was saturated with pesticides while it grew and treated and dyed with toxic chemicals while it was being processed. All of my possessions were made hundreds or thousands of miles away and shipped in styrofoam and plastic wrap via gas burning engines and destructive road and air ways to me. My food, although organically grown and completely vegan, is shipped from where it was grown to my local store and is often packaged in paper, plastic, metal, and toxic inks. I know tons of people that eat meat, smoke cigarettes, drive cars, use drugs, etc., even though they know that these things will ultimately hurt the quality (and length) of their lives. I live in an apartment building where no one is on a first name basis. I know more about idiot actors in Hollywood that I've never met than I do about the woman who lives next door to me (and is probably more interesting). While walking to work I inhale toxic exhaust from cars sitting in traffic. To make sure that eating 3 cans of oven cleaner will make you sick, or to make sure that pouring nail polish remover into your eyes will hurt you, we torture mice, rabbits, dogs, cats, etc. We use toxic chlorine bleach to keep our underpants white. We cut down the rainforests to drill for oil so that we can drive to the video store. Do you see what I mean? Everything really is wrong. Even the back to nature people still drive cars and use products made from materials ripped out of the earth. People struggle all of their lives doing work that they hate just to be a functioning member of a system that is wasteful, destructive and unhealthy.
What I advocate is this a sensible, pragmatic, and non-destructive approach towards existence, we need to re-evaluate our practices. Just as it doesn't make sense to hire an elevator operator to run an automatic elevator it doesn't make sense for billions of people to drive to work alone in their cars. It doesn't make sense to consume animal products. It doesn't make sense to use pesticides on agricultural products. It doesn't make sense to derive power from nuclear, coal, and petroleum when we have solar, hydro, and wind power. It doesn't make sense to maintain destructive systems just because people earn their livings from them. It doesn't make sense to pour billions of tons of toxic chemicals onto our lawns so that they'll look pretty and green. I could go on but you're probably either bored or overwhelmed by now. I advocate change; massive, massive change.
Basically we should stop doing these things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
-Moby
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes:
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"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Live simply so that others may simply live"
-Mahatma Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"
- Mahatma Gandhi
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"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi
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Albert Einstein Quotes:
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"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-Albert Einstein
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"It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence
the lot of mankind."
- Albert Einstein
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"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
- Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein
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"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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"The greablems, geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein
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Peace can not be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
-Albert Einstein
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"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein
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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opossition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes:
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"All good things are wild, and free."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."
-Henry David Thoreau
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"None are so old as those who have outlived
enthusiasm."
-Henry David Thoreau
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Buddhist / Eastern Quotes:
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"The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart."
- Buddha
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"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it."
- Buddha
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"There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now."
- Buddha
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"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
- Buddha
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To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.
- Buddha
"All beings tremble before violence. All fear death, all love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?"
- Buddha
"May all that have life be delivered from suffering."
- Buddha
"If the environment is destroyed, humans will be destroyed, too. Protecting human life is not possible without also protecting the lives of animals, plants, and minerals."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
The First Precept is the practice of protecting all lives, including the lives of minerals. "I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to condone any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life."
-The First Precept in Buddhism Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
-Lao Tzu
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes:
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy"
- George Bernard Shaw
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
- George Bernard Shaw
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
- George Bernard Shaw
"My specialty is being right when other people are wrong"
- George Bernard Shaw
"New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it"
- George Bernard Shaw
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means"
- George Bernard Shaw
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
- George Bernard Shaw
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity"
- George Bernard Shaw
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends"
- George Bernard Shaw
"When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
- George Bernard Shaw
"I look my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses?"
- George Bernard Shaw
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Martin Luther King Jr Quotes:
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded
by the oppressed."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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