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- ... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each…
- Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them…
- Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....
- He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,…
- It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was…
- Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration…
- It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip…
- Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
- Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
- The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the…
- And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation…
- Scientific research? Only when not at the cost of ethics-and first of all, those of the researchers themselves.
- A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
- Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.
- A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company or platoon to…
- Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
- A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.
- You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's…
- A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only…
- The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
- If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate…
- Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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