"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade."
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."
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"Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret."
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"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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"We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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"Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness."
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