Alfred de Musset Quotes

There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings.

Alfred de Musset

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Long
  • Live
  • Humanity

• I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Religion
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Live
  • Humanity
  • Tree

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Me
  • Humanity
  • Ugly

• The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

  

  Otto Hermann Kahn
  • Democracy
  • Liberty
  • Foe

• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fall
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have stated that they think AI is an existential risk. I disagree. I don't see a risk to humanity of a 'Terminator' scenario or anything of the sort.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Think
  • Humanity
  • Risk

• It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Power
  • Man

• Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Humanity
  • Wise
  • Unique

• I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Like

• Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Love
  • Way
  • Liberty

• One of the most important things for an actor is to observe humanity.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Important
  • Humanity
  • Actor

• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Liberty
  • Choose

• I've seen incredible acts of humanity in the military because people put themselves aside, and it's about the other person.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Military

• And who would deny the intellect and will of girls? That would be questioning their full humanity. On the average, abstract and mere intellectual activity is not suitable for them; they want to understand reality completely, and they want to comprehend not merely with the intellect but also with the heart.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Men
  • Passion

• There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible; now, if this was not the case, it would not be worth the trouble that humanity continue to vegetate without aim.

  

  African Spir
  • Humanity
  • Trouble
  • Esteem

• I see people having fits because their coffee is too hot or their baked potato is too cold, or some random something is imperfect and somebody can be blamed for it. These people can fly off the handle and nobody says, 'Too much beef will do that to a person.' If it's a vegan: a clear case of alfalfa sprout poisoning.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Cold
  • Fly

• Adultery is the injury of nature.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Injury
  • Adultery

• Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • History
  • Memories

• There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of the Tempter’s flaming wings.

  

  Alfred de Musset
  • Humanity
  • Liberty
  • Temptations