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…all the evils of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings.

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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

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...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes v...more

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So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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Is it not crystal clear, then, comrades, that all the evils of this life of ours spring from the tyranny of human beings?

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He and we were a party of men walking together, seeing, hearing, feeling, understanding the same world; and in two minutes, with a sudden snap, one of...more

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Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die vio...more