Bertha von Suttner Quotes

Bertha von Suttner — Austrian Novelist born on June 09, 1843, died on June 21, 1914

Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner was a Czech-Austrian pacifist and novelist. In 1905 she was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, thus being the second female Nobel laureate after Marie Curie's 1903 award, and the first Austrian laureate... (wikipedia)

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.

How can justice be attained when, in the expiation of an old wrong, another wrong is to be committed? No reasonable creature would conceive of the idea of obliterating ink stains with ink, or spots of oil with oil. Only blood must be washed out with blood.

After the verb 'to Love', 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world.

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.

The instinct of self-preservation in human society, acting almost subconsciously, as do all drives in the human mind, is rebelling against the constantly refined methods of annihilation and against the destruction of humanity.

Bertha von Suttner Quotes

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