![It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-was-not-the-violence-of-our-enemies-in-world-war-i-that-would-undo-us-i-tho.jpg)
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The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life. Albert Schweitzer
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Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.
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Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.
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Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
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If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life. Alexandra Paul
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You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place. Alexandra Fuller
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The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.
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Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism. Ludwig von Mises
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It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.
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Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.
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Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.
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Leaders of the enemy should know that they personally are targets. Islamic Jihad
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Where is love more glorified than where she dwells in the midst of her enemies?
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We make our money out of our friends. Our enemies will not do business with us. Elbert Hubbard
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An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
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When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness. Edvard Munch
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Among the clergy we find our most violent enemies, those most opposed to any change in woman's position. Elizabeth Cady Stanton