Bernard-Henri Levy Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
-
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
-
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
-
God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
-
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
-
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
-
Stupid is a great force in human affairs.
-
I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'
-
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
-
The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
-
Everything possible to be believed is an image of the truth.
-
I’m neutral on lying, seeing as how there’s times when the truth just hurts people.
-
'I'm sure you didn’t mean to hurt anyone.'Madoc Roswyn laughed a soft forlorn laugh. 'The sad truth is that I didn’t care-which may be worse.'
-
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires,And decorate the verse herself inspires:This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.
-
But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
-
The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.
-
When you sit down to write, you have to be prepared to strip all of those voices away, all of the censors away, and talk about what you think the truth is, which I think is really the task of the writer - to get to the truth.
-
Tell the truth because then you don't have to have a good memory.
-
Truth's like a dollar-piece, it's got two sides, and both are wanted to make it good currency.
-
After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
-
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
-
Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.
-
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
-
The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.
