Quote by Graham Greene
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of demo

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! – Graham Greene

Other quotes by Graham Greene

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation. – Graham Greene

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Fear
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. – Graham Greene

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War
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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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Evolution
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Other Quotes from
Peace
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace. – U Thant

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Peace

Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind. – George Grosz

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Peace

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace. – Mitch Albom

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Peace

Peace is our gift to each other. – Elie Wiesel

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Peace

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