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«Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.»

Author: Leon Trotsky | About: Cynicism, Frustration, Life | Keywords: baseness, cynicism, frustration, Great Idea, perfidy, raises

«The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.»

Author: William Ellery Channing (Author, Clergyman) | Keywords: accursed, brand, concentration, distinguishing, fraud, Here is, malignity, perfidy, prey, rapacity, slew, war crime

«Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practiced perfidy grow faithless to each other»

Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: combinations, faithless, licentious, overwhelm, perfidy, practiced, wickedness

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