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.Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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.
Ian McShane -
Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto von Bismarck -
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke -
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.
Aaron Levie -
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.
S. I. Hayakawa -
Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
Jack McBrayer
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People die because they find living too painful.
Malcolm Fraser -
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.
Mamie Van Doren -
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittain -
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz -
I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.
Nandan Nilekani -
The gun is not out of Irish politics.
Ian Paisley
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Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
Oliver St. John -
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi -
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.
Basil Hume -
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.
Zendaya -
The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
Vincent Cassel
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
I have not learned how often I Can win, can love, but choose to die.
W. D. Snodgrass -
I am using the word image in a wide meaning, which does not restrict it to the mind's eye as a visual organ. An image in my usage is what Charles Pierce called a sign...
Jacob Bronowski -
For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.
Plutarch -
His father was a Butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours, that when he was a boy he exercised his father's Trade, but when he kill'd a Calfe he would doe it in high style, and make a Speech.
John Aubrey -
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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau