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Originally Posted by Crompsin
"One can question your right to kill a thousand people... but what right do those thousand people have to be alive?!"
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"A man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors." -
Dhammapada, Verse 103
OP: Truths do not need to be spoken or articulated; truths can also be observed, understood, and acted out.
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
—Leonardo da Vinci
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—"Burnt Norton," Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot