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As we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fear...more

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He recognized that need, in Odonian terms, as his "cellular function." the analogic term for the individual's individuality, the work he can do best, ...more

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The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. ...more

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In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called war between good and evil.

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War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world...more

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War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous. By reducing the choices of action to “a war against” whatever-it-is, you divide the world...more

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On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war." She stopped reading, to rest he...more

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Without war there are no heroes.""What harm would that be?""Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

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Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

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Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Se...more

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We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution...more

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Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it's right to cure diseases, to preven...more