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After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

~Bertha Von Suttner

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The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.

~Bertha Von Suttner

Topics: Always Been Bringing Down Down To Earth Earth Eternal Forms Human Long Making Practical Process Right Stars Them Then Truth Understanding Use Vitality

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The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

~Bertha Von Suttner

Topics: Acting Against Almost Annihilation Constantly Destruction Drives Human Human Mind Human Society Humanity Instinct Methods Mind Refined Self-Preservation Society Subconsciously

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Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

~Bertha Von Suttner

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I wanted to be of service to the Peace League, and how could I better do so than by trying to write a book which should propagate its ideas? And I could do it most effectively, I thought, in the form of a story.

~Bertha Von Suttner

Topics: Better Book Could Effectively Form How Ideas League Most Peace Service Should Story Than Thought Trying Wanted Which Write

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I am quite sure that from America will come the greatest help for the cause of peace, and I consider it my duty to inform the people of Europe as to the feelings and intentions of the friends of peace in Europe.

~Bertha Von Suttner

Topics: Am America Cause Come Consider Duty Europe Feelings Friends Greatest Help Inform Intentions Peace People Quite Sure Will I Am

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Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.

~Bertha Von Suttner

Topics: Find Good Never Seek Will Within Without You

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One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

~Bertha Von Suttner

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How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

~Bertha Von Suttner

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Novelist

Born: June 9th, 1843

Died: June 21st, 1914

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