Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
Adam Mansbach -
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
Sam Harris -
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
Sammy Davis, Jr. -
The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
Rachel Bloom
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
Patrick Chappatte -
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
E. F. Benson -
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Abu Bakr -
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
G. H. Hardy -
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi -
You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
Majora Carter -
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
T. D. Jakes -
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Natan Sharansky -
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale Carnegie -
I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.
AJ McLean
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I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.
Ma Jian -
Then they grow away from the earth then they grow away from the sun then they grow away from the plants and the animals. They see no life. When they look they see only objects. The world is a dead thing for them the trees and the rivers are not alive. the mountains and stones are not alive. The deer and bear are objects. They see no life. They fear. They fear the world. They destroy what they fear. They fear themselves.
Leslie Marmon Silko -
A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.
Og Mandino -
I only want to do small parts for now.
Claudia Schiffer -
I'm here to play certain characters and give them a voice that they might not have had. That's my job, and like it or not, that's what I'm here to do.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas