Idleness Quote by Iain Pears

“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“In countries of more advanced civilisation and of a more insurrectionary spirit, the public, accustomed to expect everything to be done for them by…

— John Stuart Mill

“But further, Hobbesian individualism required that traditional independent social authorities be eliminated or suppressed. Benjamin Constant, who was a keen observer of the French…

— Donald W. Livingston

“He had returned when he did, on the pressing and written entreaty of a French citizen, who represented that his life was endangered by…

— Charles Dickens

“For just as the worker cannot be indifferent to the economic conditions of his life in existing society, so he cannot remain indifferent to…

— Rudolf Rocker

“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He…

— Victor Hugo

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“settled by the French,” he”

— Janis Owens

“He firmly believed that the French aristocrat was the most bitter enemy of France; he would have wished to see every one of them…

— Emmuska Orczy

“In France, patriotism trumped partisanship.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Denied a Lenin and deprived of Napoleon, France retreated into the last and, we must hope, indestructible redoubt, the world of Astérix . The…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and preen as…

— Lynn Messina