"During war we imprison the rights of man." — Jean Giraudoux
"During war we imprison the rights of man."
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Jean Giraudoux
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67 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
Jean Giraudoux has 67 quotes on this site.
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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
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A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell…
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If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month,…
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I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that…
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A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even…
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Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.
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A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.
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To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and…
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
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An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never…
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The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a…
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There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel…
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is…
— Willa Cather
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is…
— Winston Churchill
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to…
— Emile M. Cioran
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect…
— Michelangelo
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I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The secret of meditation is the art of unlearning. Mind is learning; meditation is unlearning: that is - die constantly…
— Rajneesh
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A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.
— Paul Craig Roberts
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What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go.…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
— Hyman Bass
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison…
— Ralph Ellison
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and…
— Thomas A. Edison
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A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be…
— Clarice Lispector
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