Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Quotes to Explore
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Politics is the art of the next best.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
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Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
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Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.
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All boys belong in insane asylums.
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I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.
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If I have accomplished anything, I owe it, among other fortunate circumstances, to the fact that through the early training bestowed on me by my father, I started, I may fairly say, with an advantage of a quarter of a century over my contemporaries.
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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
