Primo Levi Quotes

Consider whether this is a man, Who labours in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies at a yes or a no.

Primo Levi

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• To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Peace
  • Achieve
  • Guns

• With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Together

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Me
  • Peace
  • Child

• Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Blessings

• The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • God
  • War
  • True

• The stabilising power of economic union was one of the reasons the E.U. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Power
  • Peace
  • Economic

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Peace
  • Yourself

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• I think what the Nobel committee is doing is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war. Sustainable management of our natural resources will promote peace.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • War
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• To secure peace is to prepare for war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Prepare

• We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision, and move on with their lives. We need to say that is their right, and, moreover, it's good for everyone that they have this right: The whole society benefits when motherhood is voluntary.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Good
  • Women
  • Society

• Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Peace
  • Alone

• The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • World
  • Today
  • Peace

• When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Faith
  • Peace
  • Day

• I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

  

  Edna Longley
  • Writing
  • Artist
  • Critics

• 'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

  

  Brian Keene
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  

  Socrates
  • Has
  • Contented
  • Like To

• Consider whether this is a man, Who labours in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies at a yes or a no.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Peace