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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who<br />
are not fighting.<br />
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.<br />
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as<br />
physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.<br />
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes<br />
the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.<br />
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.<br />
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.<br />
To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.<br />
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,<br />
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.<br />
At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.<br />
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence<br />
on those who would do us harm.<br />
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.<br />
We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when<br />
we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were<br />
right.<br />
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act<br />
of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.<br />
Abhi Sharma
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