Balzac Quote by Honoré de Balzac Download Open image ““Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.”” — Honoré de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Balzac Journalism Modern society Religion Society
“But the acts by which governments and societies repress and control the religious lives of people are mostly quotidian and unspectacular, taking place well… — Timothy Shah Copy Share Image
For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.” — Toby Young Copy Share Image
“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.” — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
Reporters treat religion as beneath mention, as personally distasteful, or as a clear and present threat to the American way of life. — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“Our stable and eternal verities are being challenged. There's a kind of postmodern breakdown in journalism. The breadth of information sources and the speed… — Judy Polumbaum Copy Share Image
“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the book in… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient French colony… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“Balzac was pretty funny. His philosophy is plain and simple, says basically that pure materialism is a recipe for madness. The only true knowledge… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Thackeray and Balzac will make it possible for our descendants to live over again the England and France of to-day. Seen in this light,… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton Copy Share Image
Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
“Ha a nők elmésnek, tehetségesnek találják, a férfiak el fogják hinni, hogy az, hacsak maga ki nem ábrándítja őket. Akkor aztán mindent akarhat, mindenütt… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image