Bertha von Suttner Quotes

Austria, Novelist
June 9, 1843 – June, 21, 1914.

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner, née Countess Kinsky, Gräfin Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau; 9 June 1843 – 21 June 1914) was an Austrian-Bohemian pacifist and novelist. In 1905 she became the second female Nobel laureate (after Marie Curie in 1903), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate.

Also known as Pacifist

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.

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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.

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

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