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The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.
– Jeannette Rankin

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  9. Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat. – Luis Marques
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