"In times of death and famine, reason is……" — Jean Giraudoux
"In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them."
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67 Quotes by Jean Giraudoux
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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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The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
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The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable…
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The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into…
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The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.
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There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only…
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The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the…
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By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.
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The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities....The so-called clergy stupefy the masses....They…
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