Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
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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.
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Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
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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.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.
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Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.
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Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
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With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
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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.
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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence. Violence does not mean the emancipation from fear, but discovering the means of combating the cause of fear. Nonviolence, on the other hand, has no cause for fear. The votary of nonviolence has to cultivate the capacity for sacrifice of the highest type in order to be free from fear. He recks not if he should lose his land, his wealth, his life.
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
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For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
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Stupidity would not be absolute stupidity did it not fear intelligence.
