"The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than by compulsion; if in the process we learn to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task."

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Source : Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.121, I.B.Tauris

Joseph Rotblat

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“The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude.”

Source : "Knowledge and Human Interests". Book by Jürgen Habermas, 1971.
“It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“It's easier to find a new audience than to write a new speech.”
“I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.”

Source : ""Bill Goldberg Talks To 411 About Whether WWE Has Contacted Him About Returning, WWE HOF Induction, Brock Lesnar’s UFC Fight, Developing the Goldberg Character, More" by Jeffrey Harris". 411mania.com. June 28, 2016.
“I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.”
“A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.”
“To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.”
“Radiate boundless love towards the entire world - above, below, and across - unhindered, without ill will, without enmity.”

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