Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
Quotes to Explore
-
There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
-
This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
-
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
-
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
-
I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
-
I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
-
San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
-
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
-
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
-
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
-
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
-
If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
-
And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.
-
It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
-
Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.
-
I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
-
She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
-
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
-
While my father sang, Pedroza stared at me. By that time my eye pupils were staring at him, too, like a terrier that's got hold of a fox.
-
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
-
The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.
-
Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
-
You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.
-
All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
