Alain Finkielkraut Quotes

France, Philosopher
June 30, 1949

Alain Finkielkraut (born 30 June 1949) is a French philosopher and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary nonviolence, including Jewish identity and antisemitism, French colonialism, the mission of the French education system in immigrant assimilation, and the Yugoslav Wars.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Alain Finkielkraut
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.

Alain Finkielkraut
- Language
- Social
- Fit

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere

Alain Finkielkraut
- Silence
- Dies
- Clamor