"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity." Herbert Butterfield

"The Great Spirit is in all things: he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the earth is our mother. She nourishes us... that which we put into the ground she returns to us." Bedagi

"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight into our hearts. Speak Americans. I will not lie to you... do not lie to me." Hardwood

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. Virginia Woolf

"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth." Ashleigh Brilliant

"We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past." Arnold Toynbee

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"On the one hand you talk about Christian values...on the other hand you say...'Isn't force the only deterrent they respect?' This has been our trouble down through the ages... We have given only lip service to Christian values... and lived by the jungle law of tooth and claw. We have quoted 'Be not overcome of evil...overcome evil with good' and then attempted to overcome evil with more evil...thereby multiplying the evil. We worship God...but have no faith in the working of God's laws of love...." Peace Pilgrim talking with a person who believed in war AND Christian values.

"If you ain't never pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it." Meldrick Lewis

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