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 NOBELMy 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.
More Alfred Nobel Quotes
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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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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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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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Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.
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Worry is the stomach’s worst poison.
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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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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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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I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
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Contentment is the only real wealth.
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It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.
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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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Nature is man’s teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence.
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Hope is nature’s veil for hiding truth’s nakedness.
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