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“Peace is a certain resistance to the terrible satisfactions of war.”

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Author:Judith Butler

“It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.”

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Author:Robert E. Lee

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

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Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

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Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.”

Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings

“Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.”

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Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac