top of page
.png){kind=small}
"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Character quotes
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
"It is better to be gentle than rude."
"Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing."
"The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!"
"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all."
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
Explore more quotes by Johan Huizinga
"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science."
"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment."
"A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices."
"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated."
"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism."
"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment."
"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order."
"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury."
bottom of page