Ernst Junger Quotes
I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
Quotes to Explore
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.
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Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.
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There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.
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No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.
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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
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Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.
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Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.
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Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Goonies are good enough, good enough for me
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If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.
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I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.
