“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Time Enough for Love (1973)

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Robert A. Heinlein557

American science fiction author 1907–1988

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“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

J. Paul Getty (1892–1977) American industrialist

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“I lived in countries that had no democracy… so I don't find myself in the same luxury as you do. You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know what it is not to have freedom.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

“There is no way to sort-of compartmentalise human liberty into "okay, I have social liberty and I have economic freedom." No, they're the same thing. You have— If you don't have economic freedom, you don't have personal liberty, and vice versa, if you don't have personal liberty, you don't have economic freedom, either.”

Glenn Jacobs (1967) American professional wrestler and actor

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“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”

Margaret Atwood book Surfacing

Source: Surfacing

“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“In Jeet Kune Do, it’s not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. ‘Being’ is more valued than "doing."”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 117

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Source: Be a People Person

“Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost;
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well lost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been, or could be.”

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) American writer and poet

"Barter"
Love Songs (1917)

“You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Speech in New York City (7 January 1965)
Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
Variant: You can't separate peace from freedom, because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”

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