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“In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament.”

War Would Be Danger Victim Strive Nuclear Progressive Disarmament Nuclear War Nuclear Disarmament Firm Decisions

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Men have always been the victims of trifles, but when they were uncomfortable and passionate, and in constant danger, they hardly had time to notice what the daily texture of their thoughts was in their calm intervals, whereas with us the intervals are all.”

Men Peace Danger Victim Constant Calm Passionate Uncomfortable Texture Trifles Intervals

Book:The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3

Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1921-1927. Vol. 5. Book 3

“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.”

Firsts Children Littles Real Alive Danger Consequence Victim Medicine Terror Medical Imaginary Fashionable

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong To Cowardly Lion:"As for you my fine friend, you are a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.Frank Morgan as the Wizard of Oz "Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."Martin Luther King, Jr. "These days I'm feeling all right'cept I can't tell my courage from my desperation”

“We're in a very, very profound crisis. It's so obvious that no one in the power structure, either the corporate power structure or the political power structure, knows what to do or is willing to do what's necessary in relationship both to global war and global warming. It's so obvious that conditions are getting worse for the great majority of Americans. It's so obvious also that we face a very serious danger from people who feel, see themselves only as victims. And we have to somehow, in a very loving way, help the American people to recover the best that is in our traditions.”

People Knows Way Feels War Helping Faces Political Conditions Danger Willing Serious Tradition Crisis Victim Majority Structure Profound Obvious Corporate Global Warming Political Power

Author:Grace Lee Boggs

“John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.”

Mind Country Hate Danger Disease Victim Our Country

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964

“This is why mustard gas is such a danger or any weapon of mass destruction is such a dangerous thing because it - it's victims become everyone in the end.”

Ends Dangerous Danger Weapons Mass Destruction Victim Gas Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Dangerous Things Mustard Mustard Gas

Author:George Packer

“Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.”

Book Hard Healing Danger Drug Victim Bounds Overdose

Author:Karl Lagerfeld

“The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must be based upon the self-protective capability of the victim. Until the victim has developed a detailed and realistic contingency plan and has demonstrated her ability to carry it out, she remains in danger of repeated abuse.”

“Government means politics, and interference by government carries with it always the implication of coercion. We may accept the expanding power of bureaucrats so long as we bask in their friendly smile. But it is a dangerous temptation. Today politics may be our friend and tomorrow we may be its victims.”

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Author:Owen D. Young

“Only the development of his inner powers can offset the dangers inherent in man's losing control of the tremendous natural forces at his disposal and becoming the victim of his own achievements.”

Men Force Natural Danger Development Becoming Achievement Losing Victim Inherent Inner Power Losing Control

Author:Roberto Assagioli