People always make war when they say they love peace. — Quoted

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“People always make war when they say they love peace.”

David Herbert Lawrence · Peace

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

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Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

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