« All People Quotes · Milan Kundera's Page
People Quotes by Milan Kundera
- People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.
- People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
- Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world…
- If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of…
- The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
- The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- Optimism is the opium of the people.
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
- The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
- People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
- Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
- Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
- People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.…
- He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
- But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with,…
- If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some…
- Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals…
- People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.
- Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were…
More People Quotes
- We don't need youth museums. But we do need holy young people. — Pope Francis
- Whenever u get hurt from those people whom u love most don't blame them, fault is not their its your fault that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Most important thing in life is to keep moving irrespective of the facts that you r hurt u r broken or betrayed… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt