Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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• Modi is an excellent orator - sure, anybody who spouts untruths is an excellent orator.

  

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• Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.

  

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• I don't believe that we should limit waterboarding - or, quite frankly, any other alternative torture technique - if it means saving Americans' lives.

  

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• Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

  

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• What is easy is seldom excellent.

  

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• When I was a teenager, I was fat. I was shy. I wore glasses. I had a big eyebrow and hair all over my body. They were years of torture.

  

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• Home's the most excellent place of all.

  

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• Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

  

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• We're happy to keep someone of Tom's caliber in Philadelphia. Tom has done an excellent job and it was important for this organization to have him continue in this general manager role for the foreseeable future.

  

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• If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

  

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• People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

  

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• I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.

  

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• President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation of terrorists, saying 'We do not torture.' He added, 'We freedom electrocute.'

  

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• I will not be tortured, I tear torture out of myself by torturing you!

  

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• 'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

  

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• So far as travel advice to Kenya is concerned, it already warns of possible dangers and we will be reviewing that straight away.

  

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• I will do whatever I can to help my country until my death. At the Senate I try to devise laws that fit in with the way people live, and I give my opinion. And I will always do this, even if I leave the Senate. I will always try and be useful.

  

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• Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

  

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• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  

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• An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Torture
  • Excellent
  • Economist