Peace Quote by Charlotte Brontë

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if…

— Charlotte Bronte

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if…

— Charlotte Brontë

“One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquility was no more.”

— Charlotte Brontë

Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes.

— Swami Vivekananda

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of…

— Henri Barbusse

“We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world - its good facts, its bad facts, its…

— Bertrand Russell

“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you…

— Franz Kafka

If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral…

— Thomas Paine

As human beings, we ought to be vulnerable. We shouldn't try to say that we can be self-sufficient or do everything that's necessary for…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“What matters is that we’re all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.”

— Daniel Waters