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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Acts Against Barbaric Being Collectively Commit Everything Forces Individually Men Revolt War Which Whole Worst Would

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The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Adult Astonishing Child Degree Devotion Duty Educator Finished Forces Get Habits He Honour Once Out Perfect Sense Unnatural Wants

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The havoc wrought by war, which one compares with the havoc wrought by nature, is not an unavoidable fate before which man stands helpless. The natural forces that are the cause of war are human passions, which it lies in our power to change. What are culture and civilization if not the taming of blind forces within us as well as in nature?

~Ellen Key

Topics: Before Blind Cause Change Civilization Compares Culture Fate Forces Havoc Helpless Human Lies Man Natural Nature Our Passions Power Stands Unavoidable Us War Well Which Within Wrought

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The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Being Caribbean Country Democracy Equipment Forces Hands Market Military Only Passing Police Region Sophisticated Stability Threaten Through Throughout Tiny War War On Drugs Way Well Where Won

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The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Any Cannot Clearer Far Fighting Forces Government Hamas Influence Needs Real Security Security Forces States Stop Support Terror United United States We Cannot Where Will

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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Forces Ground Without You Zone

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The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Anchors Arab Arabia Been Both Consensus Diplomacy Egypt Forces Long Now Politics Saudi Saudi Arabia Weakened

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The Middle East that Obama inherited in 2009 was largely at peace, for the surge in Iraq had beaten down the al Qaeda-linked groups. U.S. relations with traditional allies in the Gulf, Jordan, Israel and Egypt were very good. Iran was contained, its Revolutionary Guard forces at home.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Al Allies Beaten Contained Down East Egypt Forces Good Groups Guard Gulf Had Home Inherited Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Largely Middle Middle East Obama Peace Relations Revolutionary Surge Traditional Very Were

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We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

~Emanuel Celler

Topics: Assassination Capital Character Character Assassination Dark Fight Forces High Innuendo Made Out Party Pledge Political Republican Republican Party Techniques Which

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Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

~Emile Durkheim

Topics: Environment Exist Filled Forces Minds Only Our Own Really Seems Social Us Which Whole

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