"When a nation becomes obsessed with the..." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.
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“What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
“And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.”
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“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.”
“In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.”
“On or about December 1910, human character changed.”
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“It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.”
“We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how”
“For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.”