Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.
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Women are hard on themselves.
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Nothing is strong that may not be endangered even by the weak.
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I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't sell.
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I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice... but because of his omnipresent images.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
