Raymond Poincare famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

  • The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?

  • Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  • The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

  • Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

  • Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.

  • In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

  • All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  • I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  • And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

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