My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.
ALFRED NOBELIt is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.
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Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
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A heart can no more be forced to love than a stomach can be forced to digest food by persuasion.
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For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
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Perhaps my dynamite plants will put an end to war sooner than your [pacifist] congresses. On the day two army corps can annihilate each other in one second all civilized nations will recoil from war in horror.
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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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I am not aware that I have deserved any notoriey, and I have no taste for its buzz.
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
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