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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For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.
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The savants will write excellent volumes. There will be laureates. But wars will continue just the same until the forces of the circumstances render them impossible.
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I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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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 would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
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It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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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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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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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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