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“Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.”

Humans War Opportunity Human Beings Common Enemy Poverty Ignorance Depends Disease Creating Weapons Absence Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Worth Living Life Worth Living True Peace Common Enemy

Author:Barack Obama

“The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.”

World Military Ignorance Discipline Absence Cruelty Drunkenness Inactivity Debauchery

Book:War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.”

Light Sides Born Darkness Ignorance Shadow Unity Absence Collectives Shadow Side

Author:John Hagelin

“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.”

Men May Made Impossible Ignorance Absence Ignorant Peculiar

Book:The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.”

Ignorance Absence Acquire Refusal Paradise On Earth

Author:Karl Popper

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.”

Ifs Courage Ignorance Creatures Brave Absence Resistance Coward Compliment Application Mastery Fear Not Fleas

Author:Mark Twain

“Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.”