Emil Cioran Quotes

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Emil Cioran

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• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • World
  • Death
  • Interesting

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • Principles
  • Personal

• The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Education
  • Health
  • Service

• A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Action
  • Justice
  • Gay

• The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • World
  • Music
  • Easy

• It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Me

• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • First
  • Duty
  • Revolutionary

• The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Pain
  • Ego
  • Isolation

• I've always wanted to walk the whole of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, which winds 184.5 miles from Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Always
  • Walk
  • Winds

• I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Enjoy

• I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Time
  • Think
  • Like

• I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Son
  • Husband

• I am a woman above everything else.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Woman

• Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • World
  • Cat
  • View

• I wouldn't give a dime for all the possibilities of [motion pictures with sound]. The public will never accept it.

  

  George Eastman
  • Public
  • Accept
  • Possibilities

• First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can't be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Discipline

• I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • May
  • Night
  • Community

• I would eat fruitcake if there'd been a nuclear war and I'd run out of canned goods.

  

  Deb Caletti
  • War

• The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

  

  Bjarke Ingels

• If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

  

  Emil Cioran