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Tony Benn : The engineers are taking their stand on grounds of conscience...Conscientious objection to the law is not a criminal act. These people are our people and we should take a principled stand, together. # Conscience

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Charles Evans Hughes : " It is not surprising that many should be captivated by the proposal, with its delusive simplicity and adequacey, for the outlawry of war. War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. The suggestion, however futile in itself, has at least the merit of bringing us to the core of the problem. Even among its sponsors appear at once the qualifications which reflect the old distinction, so elaborately argued by Grotius, between just and unjust wars. "The grounds of war," said he, " are as numerous as those of judicial actions. For where the power of law ceases, there war begins." He found the justifiable causes generally assigned for war to be three — defense, indemnity, and punishment. War is self-help, and the right to make war has been recognized as the corollary of independence, the permitted means by which injured nations protect their territory and maintain their rights. International law leaves aggrieved states who cannot obtain redress for their wrongs by peaceful means to exact it by force. If war is outlawed, other means of redress of injuries must be provided. Moreover, few, if any, intend to outlaw self-defense, a right still accorded to individuals under all systems of law. To meet this difficulty, the usual formula is limited to wars of aggression. But justification for war, as recently demonstrated, is ready at hand for those who desire to make war, and there is rarely a case of admitted aggression, or where on each side the cause is not believed to be just by the peoples who support the war. There is a further difficulty that lies deeper. There is no lawgiver for independent States. There is no legislature to impose its will by majority vote, no executive to give effect even to accepted rules. The outlawry of war necessarily implies a self-imposed restraint, and free peoples, jealous of their national safety, of their freedom of opportunity, of the rights and privileges they deem essential to their well-being, will not forego the only sanction at their command in extreme exigencies. The restraints they may be willing to place upon themselves will always be subject to such conditions as will leave them able to afford self-protection by force, and in this freedom there is abundant room for strife sought to be justified by deep-seated convictions of national interests, by long-standing grievances by the apprehension of aggression to be forestalled. The outlawry of war, by appropriate rule of law making war a crime, requires the common accord needed to establish and maintain a rule of international law, the common consent to abandon war; and the suggested remedy thus implies a state of mind in which no cure is needed. As the restraint is self-imposed it will prove to be of avail only while there is a will to peace. " # Conscience

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Dwight D Eisenhower : " A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. " # Conscience

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Martin Luther : " People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. " # Conscience

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Edward G Bulwer-Lytton : " Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. " # Conscience

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Edward G Bulwer-Lytton : " Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle. " # Conscience

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George Soros : " The supremacist ideology of the Bush Administration stands in opposition to the principles of an open society, which recognize that people have different views and that nobody is in possession of the ultimate truth. The supremacist ideology postulates that just because we are stronger than others, we know better and have right on our side. The very first sentence of the September 2002 National Security Strategy (the President's annual laying out to Congress of the country's security objectives) reads, "The great struggles of the twentieth century between liberty and totalitarianism ended with a decisive victory for the forces of freedom and a single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise." The assumptions behind this statement are false on two counts. First, there is no single sustainable model for national success. Second, the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it. " # Conscience

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Euripides : " There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience. " # Conscience

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Hippolytus : " There is one thing alone
that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience. " # Conscience

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John Dryden : " The conscience of a people is their power. " # Conscience

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Arthur Phelps : " Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law. " # Conscience

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Tony Benn: " ... Ideas are more powerful than guns." # Power

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Tony Benn: " A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world." # Doctrine # Faith # Death and Dying

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Tony Benn: " Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure." # Photography # Pleasure # Love

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Tony Benn: " We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values." # Politicians and Politics # Capitalism # Change

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Tony Benn: " The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians." # Politicians and Politics # Age and Aging # Retirement

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Tony Benn: " I did not enter the labor Party forty-seven years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr. Mori, Dr. Gallup and Mr. Harris." # Polls # Politicians and Politics # Age and Aging

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Tony Benn: " It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you." # Progress # Ignorance # Danger

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Tony Benn: " All war represents a failure of diplomacy." # War # Diplomacy # World Affairs

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Tony Benn: " The flag of racialism which has been hoisted in Wolverhampton is beginning to look like the one that fluttered 25 years ago over Dachau and Belsen." # War

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Tony Benn: " Change from below, the formulation of demands from the populace to end unacceptable injustice, supported by direct action, has played a far larger part in shaping British democracy than most constitutional lawyers, political commentators, historians or statesmen have ever cared to admit. Direct action in a democratic society is fundamentally an educational exercise." # Politicians and Politics

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