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Less Quotes by George Steiner
- The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
- The Oresteia, King Lear, Dostoevsky's The Devils no less than the art of Giotto or the Passions of Bach, inquire into, dramatize, the relations of…
- Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
- Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have…
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- The less government we have the better. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Take Me Or Leave Me Accept Me Or Walk Away, Love Me Or Hate Me But Dont Make Me Feel Like Less… — Superman
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis