MISCELLANEOUS
QU0TES
- Votes should
be weighed, not counted.---- Schiller (1759-1805), German poet and
playwright.
- The smaller number, with God and truth on
their side, are weightier than thousands.---American clergy and writer Charles
Simmons (1798-1856).
- Violence
ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A
gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and
accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart that
revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot
make him respect you.---English essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830).
- Five great
enemies to peace inhabit with us: viz., avarice, ambition, envy, anger,
and pride. If those enemies were to be banished, we should infallibly
enjoy perpetual peace,---Italian poet Francis Petrarch (1304-1374).
- By taking
revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is
superior.----Francis Bacon, English essayist and philosopher (1561-1626).
- War is the
business of barbarians.---Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), General and
former Emperor of the French.
- All the
talk of history is of nothing almost but fighting and killing, and the
honour and renown which are bestowed on conquerors, who, for the most part
are mere butchers of mankind, mislead growing youth, who by these means,
come to think slaughter the most laudable business of mankind and the most
heroic of virtues.--- English philosopher and physician John Locke
(1632-1704).
- All men
are brothers.------M. K. Gandhi (1869-1948) , Indian political leader and apostle of non- violence. Also known as
Mahatma Gandhi.
- Lives of
great en all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing,
leave behind us footprints on the sands of time; foot prints, that perhaps
another, sailing o’er life’s solemn main, a forlorn and shipwrecked
brother, seeing, shall take heart again.----American poet H.W. Longfellow (1807-1882).
10.Remember, no men are strange, no countries foreign.
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes like ours; the land our brothers
walk upon is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.----English poet James
Kirkup (1918-2009).
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G. R. Kanwal
10 November 2025.
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