Bertha von Suttner Quotes

The greatest horrors of our world are committed by people who are totally sincere.

The history of the opium fight forms a queer illustration of our National blindness to our own faults, and emphasizes our National tendency to see with amazing clarity, the sins of others, while remaining blind to our own viciousness

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

Some people cannot see a priest on a mountain of sugar.

As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank.

Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The older I get, the more I can't stand violence and have a hard time with seeing people die in horrific ways. It gets harder and harder to watch and deal with that stuff.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

Most people my age are dead at the present time and you can look it up.

Some people are so poor, all they have is their money.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

You don't want to be mean to people, but some people are real assholes. And you can't say that on TV - or, you can, but probably, as a celebrity, I can't get away with it. Trust me. Unless you're somebody who can say anything they want, I guess, like Donald Trump.

Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.

Flexibility. Oh, that's pretty clearly saying that what Donald Trump said to The New York Times is very different than what he's saying to the American people. He is not the real deal. He is a phony.

Do you know what the largest single cause of death in South Africa is? The largest single cause of death is what in the medical statistics is called external causes and that is violence in the society. For instance I've seen figures that say that if you take the male age cohort from16 to 45 years, 54% of the people who die in that age cohort die from external causes.

Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed.

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.