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- Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
- Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the…
- For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those…
- Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other…
- Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one…
- I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.
- In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the…
- I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with…
- Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
- Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
- Peace is our gift to each other.
- Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
- I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second,…
- Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not…
- But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He…
- The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other,…
- Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
- If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour