Alain de Benoist Quotes

“The promotion of ‘average’ individual causes a general levelling down.”

Alain de Benoist

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• I picked up my college copy of 'The Great Gatsby' in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I'd underlined. The answer was basically: everything.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Great
  • Movie

• Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Service
  • Years
  • Been

• For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Friends

• The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Important
  • Experience

• I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• What's going to be funny is when they think Mom and Dad are a little bit cool, because right now, we're not cool Mom and Dad.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Dad

• One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Good
  • Hope
  • Director

• He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that he loved her, and all the other knowledge seemed passing from him just as he needed it most.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • She
  • Knowledge

• Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing

• It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Money
  • Power
  • Growing

• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Reality
  • Promise
  • Commitment

• Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

  

  William Morris Hunt
  • Believe
  • Want
  • Helping

• I am a fox", the fox said.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Fox

• Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Name
  • Promotion

• Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • God
  • Children

• A Start Up is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty.

  

  Eric Ries
  • Soil
  • Designed
  • Startup

• I was always interested in acting, but in my high school sports was the cool thing to be part of, and I was still very into being cool. So I played a lot of basketball and football. But I always had that want to be in theater and to be a part of theater arts. But in my school, it was just a really nerdy thing to be a part of. Everyone in my school wore bowler hats - they were always on, always acting, and all so big. I was like, "I can't be that", even though I wanted to be.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • School
  • Art
  • Football

• “The promotion of ‘average’ individual causes a general levelling down.”

  

  Alain de Benoist
  • Average
  • Promotion
  • levelling