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If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.

– John RussellRate it:

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

– Henry KissingerRate it:

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

– Albert EinsteinRate it:

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

– Osho, My Way: The Way of The White CloudsRate it:

If people blend patriotism with any game by wrapping flags on own body or waving it by hand, then always probe to first understand whether they have been paid underhand for this dramatic act by some agencies who intend to promote this sport to achieve some business ends

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

– Ernest HemingwayRate it:

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

– Carl JungRate it:

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

– George OrwellRate it:

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

– Doug LarsonRate it:

If people could be awakened to their senses by mere preaching or writing, then probably no person would be smoking upon seeing the statutory warning on cigarette packets.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

If people could grasp life's truth through proverbs and sayings alone, Then where would the need arise to write religious scriptures, widely known?

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

If people could listen the wisdom thought with a very few words, then where would have been the reason to say the same things repeatedly in one or the other way since ages to make them heard.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

– Author UnknownRate it:

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

– WittgensteinRate it:

If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop 'em

– Lawrence Peter BerraRate it:

If people don’t respect you Enough to give you natural respect for your achievements without you begging for their support, truth is they don’t respect your talent they respect your clout therefore you will be begging for their respect and support forever, and then you are left to finesse people creating two broken sides of untruthfulness, let love come naturally and God shall bless thy gifts one has inherited in life..... A prophecy has spoken. -MillYentei

– Deshawn YeldellRate it:

If people get education, we may have peace in the world.

– Sipho P NkosiRate it:

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

– Joan BaezRate it:

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

– Ludwig WittgensteinRate it:

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

– Michelangelo BuonarrotiRate it:

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

– William FaulknerRate it:

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

– Louisa May Alcott, Little WomenRate it:

If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from "this" or from "that," then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it.

– Bruce LeeRate it:

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