Denis Diderot Quotes

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

Denis Diderot

Society

Quotes to Explore

You can wear anything as long as you put a nice pair of shoes with it.

Taylor Momsen
- Long
- You
- Nice
In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Karl Liebknecht
- Believe
- History
- Struggle
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.

Banks
- People
- Parents
- Painful
I wish I sang better.

Warren Zevon
- Wish
- Better
- I Wish
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer is when I actually start thinking about lines. That's the workhorse part. At that point, I'm being more mathematical about putting the poem on the page and less intuitive about the rhythm of the syntax.

Natasha Trethewey
- Thinking
- Writing
- Hand
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

Rachel Kushner
- People
- World
- Art