Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Ernest Renan

• Soldier
• Prison
• Rebel
• Vocation
• Heroic

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• 'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • City
  • Thought
  • Marble

• I think there are a very few pro-lifers who would say that a zygote in a petri dish is the equivalent of you or me; it's just younger. If you can say that without laughing, maybe you are a true pro-lifer. But I think most people are able or willing to make distinctions that show they maybe don't quite believe that.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Love
  • Want
  • Find

• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Problem
  • Understanding
  • Easy

• I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Life Story

• As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Change
  • Software
  • Digital

• I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Archetypal

• When I became governor, spending actually increased 28 percent my first term. Revenue increased 42 percent my first term without raising anybody's taxes. We did it because we had more taxpayers with more taxable income. That's how you get the revenue up. We did that without raising anybody's taxes.

  

  Haley Barbour
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• What's not to love about a crazy cat lady? You have to be very giving to be a crazy cat lady.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Crazy

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, 'My country, right or wrong.' In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

  

  Carl Schurz
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

  

  Lester Bangs
  • Life
  • Funeral

• Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

  

  Colley Cibber

• Climate change is a reality.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Reality

• I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

  

  Fred Hammond
  • Music
  • May
  • Help

• I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Night

• Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

  

  Amy Pascal
  • Up
  • Work

• Believe it or not, Mexican cooking, for those of you who have not gone farther south than Taco Bell, uses a lot of vegetables. But those vegetables were not brought here, like corn mushrooms, huitlacoche, or squash blossoms.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Believe
  • Cooking
  • Gone

• Henry Scoop Jackson of Washington state said: Others may seek to make America great again. I seek to make America good again. For in the last analysis, our claim to greatness will be found in our goodness.

  

  Henry M. Jackson
  • Good
  • America
  • Greatness

• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • Taken
  • Judge

• You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Wall
  • Prison
  • Slave

• Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Soldier
  • Prison
  • Rebel