Alfred Capus Quotes

Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

Alfred Capus

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• My books have occasionally been of mixed success. It's not like I have gone from triumph to triumph. I have had a couple of books do very, very well and a couple do very, very badly.

  

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• I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

  

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• Hungry for both fantasy and inspiration, readers crave protagonists who, after overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, triumph at the end of the day.

  

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• More idiots should just shut their mouths.

  

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• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  

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• The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy?

  

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• And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

  

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• Only idiots repeat failure, and that's what's been happening there.

  

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• Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

  

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• Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty

  

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• Iraq will triumph and with Iraq will our Arab nation and mankind also triumph.

  

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• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

  

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• Only idiots fail to contradict themselves three times a day.

  

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• Conduct your triumph as a funeral.

  

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• It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

  

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• The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by God and in love with God.

  

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• Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

  

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• Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

  

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• I think my biggest triumph as an artist has been navigating the music industry and being able to stay true to who I am and create the art that I want to make.

  

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• I have both exploited and been exploited in the print field.

  

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• The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

  

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• I do feel like especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, "Oh my god, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career and you don't look unbelievable and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?"

  

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• Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

  

  Alfred Capus
  • Triumph
  • Idiots
  • Exploited