Society and the World

It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here.

Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas or committing this or that conventional violation of the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

[ To a railway stationmaster :] We must leave exactly on time. . . . From now on everything must function to perfection.

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Rome-Berlin axis.

When a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. . . . When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

The two valets sit at the top of the table, but at least I have the honor of being placed above the cooks.

[ Of Bill Clinton :] This is our first black President.

They shoot the white girl first.

Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. . . . Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty. . . . Again, there is no liberty, if the judiciary power be not separated from the legislative and executive.

Chaque homme porte la forme entière de l’humaîne condition .

Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Hollywood’s a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.

Il faut manger pour vivre et non pas vivre pour manger .

Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.

Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.

Be kind to everyone on the way up; you’ll meet the same people on the way down.

Be kind to everyone on the way up; you’ll meet the same people on the way down.

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party and in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party and in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.