I am inclined to follow the course suggested by a friend of mine who says that he has always followed the rule never to murder a man who is committing suicide, and clearly this misdirected gentleman is committing suicide slowly but sureley.
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Letter to Bernard Baruch (19 August 1916), PWW 38:51.
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Variant: Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.(Thomas) Woodrow Wilson
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Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
Otto von Bismarck
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
Oscar Wilde
Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.
Henri Barbusse
Let us go on committing suicide by working among our people, and let them dream life just as the lake dreams the sky.
Miguel de Unamuno
Terrorism thrives on administrative violence and injustice; that is the only atmosphere in which it can thrive and grow. It sometimes follows the example of indiscriminate violence from above; it sometimes, though very rarely, sets it from below. But the power above which follows the example from below is on the way to committing suicide.
Sri Aurobindo
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