Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

Simone de Beauvoir

• Slave
• Tyranny
• Liberation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Play
  • Always
  • Start

• I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Career
  • Deep
  • Voice

• When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Black-and-white

• There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Catholic

• When you're on TV, you come into people's homes. In theater and film, they go to you - to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it's very different.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • People
  • Different
  • Home

• The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human being from having one.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Universe
  • Purpose

• What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

  

  Alan Paton
  • Man
  • Kill
  • Broke

• I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • Family
  • Feeling

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Sex when you're married is like going to the 7-Eleven: There's not much variety, but at three in the morning, it's always there.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Morning
  • Sex
  • Married

• I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Home
  • Feel
  • Ballgame

• The great, God-blessed churches in the world today have one common characteristic: an insistence upon an exposition of God's infallible Word.

  

  O. S. Hawkins
  • World
  • Great
  • God

• Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Truth
  • Opinion
  • Forever

• Sometimes it's strange being me. I travel the world meeting people, I'm surrounded with friends and my life is full, but all the time I am confronted by a young man I have nothing in common with. He is me, but he is not me now. In fact I have been me now for longer than I was him, but no one wants to know about me.

  

  Eddy Merckx
  • Friends
  • Travel
  • Strange

• It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

  

  Alex Grey
  • Prayer
  • Identity
  • Moment

• There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Slave
  • Tyranny
  • Liberation