Honore de Balzac Quotes

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

Honore de Balzac

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Up
  • Business
  • Trouble

• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty

• If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Sympathy

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Young
  • Trouble
  • Sixties

• My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • World
  • Trouble
  • Escaping

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Game
  • Trouble
  • Iron

• For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

  

  Harry Browne
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Security

• The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Safeguards

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Done
  • Liberty
  • Slavery

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• Since we had always sky about, when we had eagles they flew out leaving no shadow bigger then wrens' to trouble our most aeromantic hens. Too busy bridging loneliness to be alone we hacked in ties what Emily etched in bone. We French, we English, never lost our civil war, Endure it still, a bloodless civil bore; No wounded lying about, no Whitman wanted. It's only by our lack of ghosts we're haunted.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Trouble
  • Shadow
  • Civil War

• If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Spirit
  • Fortunate
  • Miserable

• In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Culture
  • You
  • Order

• Africa may yet prove to be the spiritual conservatory of the world ... When the civilised nations in consequence of their wonderful material development, shall have had their spiritual susceptibilities blunted through the agency of a captivating and absorbing materialism, it may be that they have to resort to Africa to recover some of the simple elements of faith.

  

  Edward Wilmot Blyden
  • Faith
  • Development
  • Africa

• You can't get past the liberal press with a bucket of ink.

  

  Judy Martz
  • Press
  • Ink
  • Bucket

• Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Trouble
  • Liberty
  • Despotism