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• The strength to kill is not essential for self-defense; one ought to have the strength to die. When a man is fully ready to die, he will not even desire to offer violence. Indeed, I may put it down as a self-evident proposition that the desire to kill is in inverse proportion to the desire to die. And history is replete with instances of men who by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

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• Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

  Russell Hoban

  Lost, Ready, Explorers

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• My mistress has come home; at last I've seen her. Now I'm ready to die.

  Anton Chekhov

  Home, Mistress, Lasts

  Anton Chekhov (2012). “The Cherry Orchard”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Long, Humanity

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1862). “The Duties of Man”, p.94

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• I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, Ready, Dies

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

  Horace

  Sweet, Should, Ready

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• Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

  Paul Eldridge

  Men, Ideas, Clear

  The Reader's Digest, Volume 82, February 1963.

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• If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.

  Malcolm X

  Freedom, Vocabulary, Hajj

  Chicago Defender, November 28, 1962.

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• Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we surrender our sense of human dignity, our judgement, or moral and aesthetic sense for pride. If there is pride in being free, we are ready to die for liberty. If there is pride to be derived from an identification with a leader, we grovel in the dust before a Napoléon, Hitler or Stalin and are ready to die for him. If there is a distinction in suffering we search for martyrdom as for hidden treasure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Pride, Self, Dust

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• There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Defense, Sake, Reactions

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.78, Beacon Press

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• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

  Carl Jung

  Time, Age, Alive

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• May the power of your love, Lord Christ, fiery and sweet as honey, so absorb our hearts as to withdraw them from all that is under heaven. Grant that we may be ready to die for love of your love, as you died for love of our love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Sweet, Heart

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• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

  Edward Abbey

  Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• We were all ready to die for the country but what we did not discover was we have to live for the country.

  Jim Paredes

  Country, Ready, Dies

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• To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Flames, Dying

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• "Let there be no inscription upon my tomb. Let no man write my epitaph. No man can write my epitaph. I am here ready to die. I am not allowed to vindicate my character; and when I am prevented from vindicating myself, let no man dare calumniate me. Let my character and motives repose in obscurity and peace, till other times and other men can do them justice.

  Robert Emmet

  Writing, Character, Men

  Speech on his trial and conviction for high treason (September, 1803); reported in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 230), 1922.

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• Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Racism, People, Racist

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• If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.

  Plato

  Army, Fighting, Cities

  Plato (2016). “Symposium”, p.38, Lulu.com

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• The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. In the future as in the past, the Church will be intolerant about the sanctity of marriage, for what God has joined together no man shall put asunder; she will be intolerant about her creed, and be ready to die for it, for she fears not those who kill the body, but rather those who have the power to cast body and soul into hell.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Past, Men, Soul

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• I said I was ready to die recently, and I think I was exaggerating.That declaration of readiness, no matter what the outcome, that's a part of everyone's soul.

  Leonard Cohen

  Thinking, Soul, Outcomes

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• I would be misleading you if I made you feel that we could win a violent campaign. It's impractical even to think about it. The minute we start, we will end up getting many more people killed unnecessarily. Now, I'm ready to die myself. Many other committed people are ready to die. If you believe in something firmly, if you believe in it truly, if you believe it in your heart, you are willing to die for it, but I'm not going to advocate a method that brings about unnecessary death.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.

  Jack Welch

  Team, Always Trying, Innovation

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• The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.

  James C. Collins

  People, Leader, Transition

  "Good to Great". Book by James C. Collins, 2001.

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• I am ready to die out of nature, and be born again into this new yet unapproachable America I have found in the West.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  America, Dying, United States

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• I don't believe in men waiting until they are ready to die before using any of their money for helpful purposes.

  George Eastman

  Believe, Men, Waiting

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