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

• Don't let any opportunity lead you away from serving God. That's a price that's too high to pay.

  

  George Foreman
  • Opportunity
  • Pay
  • Serving

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

  

  Nelly
  • Politics
  • Average
  • Savage

• Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser, and subtler; his body will become more harmonious, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above these heights, new peaks will rise.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Voice
  • Average
  • Dramatic

• [Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Heart
  • Proud

• Hobbes clearly proves, that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • War
  • Creature
  • Proves

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

  

  Alain de Benoist
  • Average
  • Promotion
  • levelling