“ How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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“ There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. ”
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“ There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see. ”
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
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“ All that a pacifist can undertake — but it is a very great deal — is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
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“ I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ”
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“ All that a pacifist can undertake — but it is a very great deal — is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. ”
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
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“ However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. ”
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“ All that a pacifist can undertake — but it is a very great deal — is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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“ However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire. ”
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“ The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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“ I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading. ”
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
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“ The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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“ At no previous period has mankind been faced by a half-century which so paradoxically united violence and progress. Its greater and lesser wars and long series of major assassinations have been strangely combined with the liberation of more societies and individuals than ever before in history, and by the transformation of millions of second-class citizens — women, workers and the members of subject races — to a stage at which first-rate achievement is no longer inhibited even if opportunities are not yet complete. ”
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“ The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. ”
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“ All that a pacifist can undertake — but it is a very great deal — is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. ”
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
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