"The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human."

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Source : "Searchlights and Nightingales". Book by Robert Wilson Lynd, 1939.

Ellen Key

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“What happened to your hand? It got hit by a mirror. How'd that happen? I lost my temper at myself.”
“Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. Its always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.”
“As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.”
“I like to try anything... You have to do the experiments to find out what the formulas are.”
“The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.”
“There is healing in the bitter cup.”

Source : Robert Southey “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
“You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.”

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