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“The worst extreme existential risk for humanity is not a nuclear war, the impact of a mega killer cosmic rock, nor a catastrophic disaster or a pandemic. The worst existential risk is humanity loosing its attraction towards risk. Without it, the stimulation to innovate would disappear, along with the progress of our civilization.”

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Book:From Asteroids to Pandemics : Living a World of Spontaneous Risks
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“The rigid rifle drill of the British infantryman had been their most potent weapon since the wars against Napoleon. Now it was the turn of the Dervishes to feel the impact of those heavy lead Martini Henry bullets. By now any European army would have staggered and might even have stopped. The Dervishes never paused, but ran forward screaming their war cries and trying to get within killing distance of the steady lines of men before them.”

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Book:No Road to Khartoum
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“He who fights with guns and knives is a coward! For how easy is it to kill with the single pull of a trigger? And how does human flesh stand to a sharpened metal? Even an idiot can kill with a gun and a knife! A man needs no courage at all to stand behind these things that make him feel invincible and bigger than he ever will be! I don't say that no one should fight! Because battles must be fought, and wars will always be won! But let those who fight, fight with bare hands! The measure of true strength! With his hands and feet and nothing but! The country with truly strong men is able to have soldiers that need not a knife, that need no guns! And if you can soar even higher than that; fight with your pens! Let us all write! And see the substance of the man through his philosophies and through his beliefs! And let one philosophy outdo another! Let one belief outlast another! And let this be how we determine the outcome of a war!”

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Author:C. JoyBell C.
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“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives, your personalities, your whole world. All invented. All made up. All the wars, the romances. The masterpieces and the machines. And there's nothing here but a funny little twist of amino acids, playing a marvelous game of pretend.”

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Book:Promethea, Vol. 5
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“After living more than a decade in America now, I have come to accept that most of my fellow American citizens are as powerless as I am in influencing the American foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. Even more discouraging is that, by pointing out this reality, one is immediately labeled as ‘un-American’, ‘anti-American’, or other misleading adjectives and accusations to silence any voices seeking to change this bleak reality.”

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Author:Louis Yako
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“The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Diplomats sitting inside their cozy air-conditioned offices most profoundly utter, you must have patience to have peace on earth. To them I say, how dare you preach on peace, you ignorant snobs - tell that to the innocent little kids who are suffering in warzones, without any clue as to whether they'll live to see the next day - while the capitalist circle of the developed world keeps getting richer by getting the shallow masses hooked on nonessential technology, these children of war have one question in their mind - whether starvation will kill them first or explosives. Shame on you - shame on us - who despite having a roof over head and food on the table, have not the slightest bit of concern for these innocent lives forgotten by destiny. There is no time for patience - there is no time for diplomacy - there is no time for policies, legislations and meaningless paperwork. It's enough already. Either stand up and rush to the aid of these war-stricken communities through whichever means possible or keep your mouth shut for the rest of your life.”

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Book:Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
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“- "لا أحب التعميم أبدا!" قلت له بصراحة، "ولكن، الأمر ليس فوبيا على الإطلاق، المسلم المتدين الذي يحلم بإعادة تأسيس دولة دينية مخيف حقاً، لأنه يمتلك أيديولوجية شمولية، تحاول فرض نفسها وإقصاء الآخر، وسلبه حقه في الحياة والوجود. هؤلاء الأفراد خطرون لأنهم يرون بأنهم يحتكرون الحقيقة، وبأن الآخر مخطيء يستحق العذاب، بل وإن كان الأمر بيد هؤلاء المتدينين سيخيرون الآخر بين إعتناق الدين الإسلامي أو العيش ذليلاً تحت رحمتهم، والخطر الآخر هو أنهم لا يرضون بالتطور، وتحجروا في صراعات الماضي وأحكامه، والحضارة عندهم توسع فقط، بل إن المتدينين يحتقرون النتاج العلمي والأدبي والفني بصورة عامة، وحتى ذلك الذي تم إنتاجه في العصر العباسي، ويرون في ذلك إنحلالا أضعف "الخلافة"، وشيئا لا يستحق الإفتخار به. إنهم يفخرون بالتوسع والقتال فحسب. قد تعتذر الشعوب الأخرى عن جرائمها فيما بعد، بل وتدينها في بعض الأحيان، وتشعر بالخزي مما اقترفه الأسلاف، لكنهم يواصلون تمجيد ما يسمونه بالفتوحات ويسعون لتكرارها، وفرض رؤاهم على العالم بأسره. المسلم المتعصب يكره حضارته نفسها، ويريد قولبتها وفق مفهوم الدين فقط، ويحاول طمس كل التقاليد والموروثات القومية والشعبية القديمة التي تمكنت من النجاة من خلال تأطيرها بإطار إسلامي على مدى قرون. إذا كنا نتحدث عن من يحمل مثل هذه الأفكار، ومن يعتبر الأرض بأسرها ملكاً له، وبأن من حقه غزوها وقتل شعوبها لنشر عقيدته، فنحن لا نتكلم عن فوبيا، بل عن خطرٍ حقيقي يحدق بالعالم.”

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Book:صراع الأقنعة
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“Among the favorite arguments of the irreligious, one that they almost invariably advance in their opening offensive in their attacks on faith is this: that conflicts fought in the name of religion are necessarily ABOUT religion. By saying this the irreligious hope to establish that religion is of itself the cause of conflict. This is a crude factual misunderstanding. Some conflicts fought in the name of religion are specifically religious. Many others are not, or cannot be so simply classified. The only general lesson that can be drawn from these differing wars is that Man is inclined to make war on Man when he thinks it will gain him power or wealth or land.”

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Book:The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith
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“Movies were America’s way of softening up the rest of the world, Hollywood relentlessly assaulting the mental defenses of audiences with the hit, the smash, the spectacle, the blockbuster, and, yes, even the box office bomb. It mattered not what story these audiences watched. The point was that it was the American story they watched and loved, up until the day that they themselves might be bombed by the planes they had seen in American movies.”

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Book:The Sympathizer
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“if the world will attain its utmost peace and stability;and contentions be limited, then the ideology, philosophy and mentality of people in the world should be shifted from the more you acquire the more valuable you are to the more you give the more important you are and with the mentality that giving is a sacred responsibility and not a competition”

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Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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“Whoever is planning a nuclear war or seriously thinking about using nuclear weapons must directly be taken to a mental hospital! Mad people are mentally sick and they only need a medical treatment! Every nation has the responsibility to weed their deranged politicians out from their governments!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“The twentieth century can well and truly be regarded as the century of modern science. Science has made us understand the physical world better and to make the ever-more effective use of matter around us. The comforts of life that a common person takes for granted were not available to even the Kings and the Royals of the past. Nonetheless, along with advancements in science and technology, over 200 million people died in the last century in wars. On average, if 5,500 people die on every day of a century, only then it will reach the figure of 200 million. Is extinction merely a rearrangement of molecules, even if it happens to humans via nuclear weapons? We need better humans, morality, values and a social contract that can make us live better, meaningful and fulfilling lives. The technological advancements do not make right as wrong or wrong as right. In fact, if values are undermined, then the same technology can be used for more destruction rather than for social benefit.”

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Book:Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
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“We cannot control the way people interpret our ideas or thoughts, but we can control the words and tones we choose to convey them. Peace is built on understanding, and wars are built on misunderstandings. Never underestimate the power of a single word, and never recklessly throw around words. One wrong word, or misinterpreted word, can change the meaning of an entire sentence and start a war. And one right word, or one kind word, can grant you the heavens and open doors.”

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Book:Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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“..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit newer forms of right/s as and when recognized as an inalienable ‘right’ , along with wrapped-in duties; duties, on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand, and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other...”

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Author:Henrietta Newton Martin
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“Diplomacy won't bring peace, only heartfelt nonjudgmental conversation will. So, for once O Nations of Earth, forget your national insecurities and sit down together, not as nations but as humans, not to negotiate, but to communicate.”

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Book:Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
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