James Mace famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.
-- James Mace -
I remain convinced that for Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second-largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Such a policy is Genocide in the classic sense of the word.
-- James Mace
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Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.
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I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
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The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
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Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
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I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
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There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.
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The Second Temple was destroyed because of causeless hatred. Perhaps the Third will be rebuilt because of causeless love.
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They (the press) have a hatred of Manchester United.
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