Jules Michelet Quotes
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
Jules Michelet
Quotes to Explore
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We will not keep silent, even if the Formula One is taking place. We will protest for human rights and freedom.
Zainab al-Khawaja
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My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.
Emile Zola
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Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.
Tom Stoppard
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
Abraham Lincoln
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In the name of God and humanity I protest!
John B. Hood
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Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.
Virginia Woolf
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51 percent of women and 18 percent of men have had or would like to have a same-sex experience.
Christian Rudder
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The thing about Wagner is we're always wrong about him, because he always embraces opposites. There are things in his operas which viewed one way are naturalistic, and viewed another way are symbolic, but the problem is you can't represent both views on stage at once.
Daniel Barenboim
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Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.
Hillary Clinton
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After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said -
The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.
And somehow I'm still alive.
Carole Maso
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I think that it's important not to take acting too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.
Michael Pitt
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Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
Jules Michelet
