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The War Prayer by Mark Twain
Mark Twain wrote The War Prayer in 1905, in response to the Spanish–American War and the subsequent Philippine–American War. It...
Einstein on Peace: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
On July 9, 1955, philosopher Bertrand Russell and physicist Albert Einstein, along with 9 other prominent scientists, issued a statement...
Live Not By Lies by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn was arrested for publishing Live Not by Lies. He said: "Let the lie come into the world, let...
A Letter to a Hindu: The Subjection of India—its Cause and Cure by Tolstoy
The following letter was penned by Leo Tolstoy in 1908, in reply to a letter from the editor of Free...
The Law of Love & The Law of Violence by Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy states that the true Christian doctrine consists only in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life,...
The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain
In The Lowest Animal, Mark Twain describes how animals often show greater civility than humans, causing him to ponder man's...
Trade Wind: A Short Story
A man wakes up on the beach of a desert island still strapped to his airliner seat, bruised and bloody,...
The Redistribution of Authority by Butler Shaffer
Socialists claim that peace, freedom, and order requires redistribution of wealth—but it actually comes from private ownership of property.
