Bertrand de Jouvenel Quotes

For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

Bertrand de Jouvenel

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• I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Talking

• There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • President
  • Battle
  • Syria

• I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

  

  Young Buck
  • Back
  • Streets
  • Started

• I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• I grew up in Cuba under a strong, military, oppressive dictatorship. So as a teenager, I found myself involved in a revolution. I remember during that time, a young, charismatic leader rose up, talking about hope and change. His name was Fidel Castro.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• I feel like all Londoners relate more to New York - L.A. doesn't feel like a 'city' city. It's like a sleepy town.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I did kindergarten twice because I was so shy.

  

  Zendaya
  • Because
  • Shy
  • Twice

• Being biracial is sort of like being in a secret society. Most people I know of that mix have a real ability to be in a room with anyone, black or white.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Real
  • Society

• I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Think
  • Story
  • Connection

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • You
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• Maybe what we really want is for our children to be the dominant ones! Maybe I'm trying to see my own ambitions fulfilled in them, and that would be wrong, so I should be content with what they are.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Children
  • Trying

• We want to raise the children the parents aren't raising. I think we want to press individuality on people, though that doesn't necessarily mean being like us. But, it doesn't mean that if you come dressed like us that you aren't being yourself.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• Together, we are prepared to lay a foundation for a more secure future for the entire world

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • World
  • Together
  • Future

• Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Music
  • Wallpaper

• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Courage
  • Temptation
  • Takes

• His self-emptying is the revelation of his omnipotence in love.

  

  Walter Kasper
  • Love
  • Revelation
  • Omnipotence

• If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. This is because what others want may not be good for you. You are not being mean when you say NO to unreasonable demands or when you express your ideas, feelings, and opinions, even if they differ from those of others.

  

  Beverly Engel
  • Opinions
  • Demands
  • Frustrated

• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose clash can be settled only by political or military force; and each force in turn enthrones in its hour of triumph a true, a good, and a just which will endure just as long as itself.

  

  Bertrand de Jouvenel
  • Force
  • Opinions
  • Triumph