"I could never have been a pacifist. To……" — Graham Greene
"I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity."
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207 Quotes by Graham Greene
Graham Greene has 207 quotes on this site.
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Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.
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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can…
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an…
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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word,…
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive,…
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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians…
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo…
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all,…
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Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
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When we are not sure, we are alive.
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More Always Everywhere Quotes
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All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Opportunities are always everywhere, learn to see and create them.
— Jacob Gelt Dekker
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer .…
— William James
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I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering.…
— David Hockney
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William James
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If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and…
— Graham Greene
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I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life,…
— Orison Swett Marden
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To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
— William Kingdon Clifford
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