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Quotes by French Authors
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese."
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
"The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
"At the heart of pornography is sexuality haunted by its own disappearance."
"There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant."
"You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself."
"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."
"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."
"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated."
"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it."
"The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself."
"Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
"An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it."
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
"Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society."
"True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate."
"Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness."
"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world."
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
"The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines."
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows."
"There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
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