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"The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place."
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"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."
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"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."
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"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
Liberty
"I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France."
Nation
"The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility."
Danger
"Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours."
Society
"Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished."
Government
"My problem is how to find the best way of being useful."
Being
"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan."
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