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Paradise Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
- In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
- Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate…
- Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by…
- Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
- Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our…
- Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
More Paradise Quotes
- No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. — Dean Acheson
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. — Abu Bakr
- He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. — Abu Bakr
- Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender… — Roseanne Barr
- Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise,… — Saint Basil
- The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on. — Mario Batali
- Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial… — Jean Baudrillard
- There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo. — Erma Bombeck
- Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky,… — Daniel Boone
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto