Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!
Bertha Von SuttnerRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses a desire to contribute to a cause by sharing its ideals through storytelling.
Bertha Von Suttner emphasizes the power of storytelling as a means to advocate for peace. By choosing to write a book that propagates the ideas of the Peace League, she highlights the belief that literature can be a powerful tool for promoting social change and influencing people's thoughts and actions in favor of peace.
Themes
PeaceStorytellingServiceAdvocacyLiterature
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about peace initiatives, you might say, 'As Bertha Von Suttner once stated, I wanted to be of service to the Peace League through storytelling.'
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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.
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The stars of eternal truth and right have always shone in the firmament of human understanding. The process of bringing them down to earth, remolding them into practical forms, imbuing them with vitality, and then making use of them, has been a long one.
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