Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Sword

• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Free

• Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Free
  • You
  • Boss

• I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Work
  • Job
  • Guy

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • Free
  • Humanity

• The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Free
  • Democracy

• It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Power
  • Man
  • Free

• Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Free
  • Environment
  • Violence

• I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Free

• In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You could put solar array in the Arizona desert attached to bitcoin miners, and instead of trying to ship that electricity all over world, you could ship Bitcoin all over the world.

  

  Gavin Andresen
  • World
  • Trying
  • Future

• At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black sheets. I'd get in bed wearing a nightcap, and my fans would get in bed with me, one at a time, and I'd sign their memorabilia. And then I'd give them a free pint of Ben & Jerry's.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Time
  • Free
  • Black

• People think the free market is a philosophy, they think that it is a creed. It is none of those things. Free market is a bathroom scale, it is a measuring tape, it's simply a measurement.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Free
  • Philosophy

• I'm a big believer in free enterprise. If people want to try it, then go for it.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • People
  • Want
  • Free

• I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • World
  • Love
  • Free

• While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Writing
  • American
  • Free

• I have many times resigned myself to never finding a true way out. But a new hope always emerges telling me that it is not yet too late for all of us to take stock and make a decision. I was brought up to believe in free will.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • True

• There were so many specific things from high school jazz band that I remembered: the conductor searching out people who were out of tune, or stopping and starting me for hours in front of the band as they watched.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • School
  • High

• I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Citizen
  • Jury
  • Summons

• The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union.

  

  Mark Rutte
  • Culture
  • Growth

• I think that whenever businesses harm the economy, harm workers, harm consumers, or undermine human rights in any way, then it is the role of the government to make sure that they don't do that and to make sure that markets are fair and they operate properly.

  

  Keith Ellison

• We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.

  

  Alan Moore

• It is doubtless impossible to approach any human problems with a mind free from bias.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
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  • Human Problems