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The ways and power of love (1954)
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Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.
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Only the power of unbounded love practiced in regard to all human beings can defeat the forces of interhuman strife, and can prevent the pending extermination of man by man on this planet. Without love, no armament, no war, no diplomatic machinations, no coercive police force, no school education, no economic or political measures, not even hydrogen bombs can prevent the pending catastrophe.
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[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.
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Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.
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The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.
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Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.
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Born:
February 4, 1889
Died:
February 10, 1968
(aged 79)
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