Quote by Anthony Burgess
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess

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We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve ancestral regard. No, we are the sons of Cain, and with violence can be associated the attacks on sound, stone, wood and metal that produced civilization. – Anthony Burgess

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I am 73 years old. Ive seen everything. Ive met the kings, the queens, the presidents, Ive been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace. – Ariel Sharon

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes

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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace. – Tacitus

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Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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