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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
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Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.