Some think the worst horrors of war might be avoided by an international agreement not to use atomic bombs. This is a vain hope.
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.John Boyd Orr
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.
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The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
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There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
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