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Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations. (Kirby Page)
The economic and political power-and therefore police and military force-at the disposal of the owning class is almost illimitable, and is wielded with a ruthless determination to maintain privilege, prestige, and power. View quote
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If individuals exercise the freedom to seek their own gain through competitive struggle and to acquire unlimited wealth and property, the result for most of the population will be bondage to destitution and insecurity. View quote
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No more thrilling challenge confronts the people of this generation than that inherent in the crusade to abolish war and to create adequate international organization. View quote
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If the race of armaments continues it will lead to the third world war and to the destruction of our civilization. View quote
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To depend upon mutual aid is right. It is better to run the risks of doing right. View quote
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There is something more in life... No man has reached the maximum capacity for self-preservation and growth, no man has attained the full measure of conscious spiritual existence, no man has entered into the deepest communion with God or is entirely devoted to his service. View quote
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Predictions of failure have been made every time an extension of governmental jurisdiction has been suggested. View quote
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War is waged by governmental action and war can be prevented only by actions of governments. This means that individuals must act as citizens and influence the behavior of governments if they are to be effective in preventing war. View quote
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If a considerable proportion of the present generation is to achieve individuality it must travel the road of collectivism. View quote
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Enemies are at work day and night in the material realm. Chief among these are ignorance, carelessness, and greed. Operating independently or together, they have wrought enormous destruction. (Kirby Page)
Religious people must be brought to a vivid realization of their awful guilt in sanctioning and supporting an economic system that is the direct antithesis of their religious ideals. View quote
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War is atrocity; war is a method of savage violence. View quote
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The physical basis for international cooperation is being more firmly established each decade. Space is being bridged and time eliminated by modern inventions. View quote
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If we insist upon being a law unto ourselves, we make it easier for other nations to do likewise. View quote
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Surely, with so much at stake for the entire human race, the only place for the United States is in the vanguard of the movement to substitute international law for international violence, international agencies of justice for international anarchy. View quote
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If we trust organized and aggressive goodwill we will transform the present war-producing system into a peace system which removes the causes of war and maintains the agencies of pacific settlement of international dispute. View quote
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The earliest authority was the word of the strongest warrior, the head of the family or the tribe, the medicine man or the witch doctor. View quote
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If reverence for personality, the principle of mutuality, active goodwill, and love toward God and man constitute the essence of high religion, then in many situations, in an imperfect world, compulsion becomes a religious obligation. View quote
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If we are to oppose evildoers, especially if we are to make use of non-violent methods of restraining wrongdoers, we must not only refrain from animosity, but we must reveal our devotion to mankind by exhibiting a willingness to endure suffering, rather than submit to the exploitation of our fellows or to retaliate with weapons of violence. View quote
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You cannot always tell what a man is by looking at him. What he appears to be and what he really is may be radically different. The appearance of a man today does not always reveal what he will be tomorrow. (Kirby Page)
The police take action against the criminal himself; not against his family and friends. War does not deal merely with the guilty men but destroys multitudes of innocent people; indeed, it does far more damage to the innocent than to the guilty. View quote
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There is a far higher degree of probability of success through non-warlike means than through the Communist strategy of civil war. View quote
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Self-centeredness is death. Centeredness in God and in his people brings life. View quote
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Communists have nothing but contempt for religion and for pacifism. They use the united front as a means of boring from within. View quote
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