Stronger than pain quotes (page 209) | Quotes of famous people

“Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.”

Nélson Rodrigues (1912–1980) Brazilian writer and playwright

"Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" - Published by Companhia das Letras, 1992 ISBN 8571646678, 9788571646674 - Page 83

“It is easier to make war than make peace.”

Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix.
"Discours de Paix" [Speech on Peace] Verdun (20 July 1919)
Prime Minister

“I will read anything rather than work.”

Jean Kerr book Please Don't Eat the Daisies

"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)

“Fear arises sooner than anything else.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.

“No ally is better than one’s own race.”

Kim Young-sam (1927–2015) South Korean politician

As quoted in "What the West gets wrong about North Korea’s motives, and why some South Koreans admire the North" http://theconversation.com/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-north-koreas-motives-and-why-some-south-koreans-admire-the-north-83639 (8 September 2017), The Conversation

“Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.”

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Italian politician, Writer and Author

Sono maggiori li spaventi ch'e mali.
Act III, scene xi
The Mandrake (1524)

“I would rather be right than be President.”

Henry Clay (1777–1852) American politician from Kentucky

Speech, Senate (1850), referring to the Compromise Measures.

“A few honest men are better than numbers.”

Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader

Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)

“Distorting history is no less a crime than sedition.”

Yogi Adityanath (1972) Indian politician

Yogi Adityanath, quoted in The Indian Express, Secular word is the biggest lie, says Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath, 14 November 2017. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/secular-word-is-the-biggest-lie-says-yogi-adityanath-uttar-pradesh-cm-raipur-4936367/

“One must be an illusionary rather than a visionary.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.”

Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher

§ 3; quoted also by Eusebius of Caesarea, Praeparatio Evangelica xv. 13
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius

“A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all.”

John James Cowperthwaite (1915–2006) British colonial administrator

February 26, 1964, page 52.
Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council

“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Upon hearing about the construction of the Berlin Wall, as quoted in "Savage century" in "The Sunday Times (28 May 2006) http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article724547.ece
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