The Times Great Quotations: Famous quotes to inform, motivate and inspire

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were — to the very last minute — a chance to lose it.

[The President’s News Conference, 1956]

Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th president of the US (1890–1969)

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War settles nothing … to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one!

An Autobiography (1977)

Agatha Christie, English writer (1890–1976)

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Peace is the only battle worth waging.

Combat (1945)

Albert Camus, French philosopher, writer and journalist (1913–1960)

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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

[Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1931]

Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

[Telegram to prominent Americans, 1946]

Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (1879–1955)

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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there’s only one, and that’s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

L’Espoir (1937)

Andrе Malraux, French writer (1901–1976)

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We are in an armed conflict; that is the phrase I have used. There has been no declaration of war.

[Speech on the Suez crisis, House of Commons, 1956]

Anthony Eden, prime minister of the UK (1897–1977)

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Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Notebooks (1921)

Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (1860–1904)

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If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and missionary (1910–1997)

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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Once Around the Sun (1951)

Brooks Atkinson, American theatre critic and writer (1894–1984)

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It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

Jane Eyre (1847)

Charlotte Bront?, English writer (1816–1855)

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First, we are going to cut it off, and then, we are going to kill it.

[Pentagon press briefing on the Gulf War, 1991]

Colin Powell, US general and politician (1937–)

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It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Outspoken Essays: First Series “Patriotism” (1919)

Dean Inge, English writer, priest and educator (1860–1954)