Quotes by
André Frossard |
1915-1995 , French politician & essayist
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Quotations
| • | Intellectuals are always willing to question a truth, but rarely a mistake. 5 |
| • | In France, the first political principle is: everything you do is wrong and will remain wrong until it is me who does it. 4 |
| • | A love that doesn't feel like eternity actually never started. 4 |
| • | There are cases where the whole art of diplomacy is aimed at preserving problems for as long as possible. 4 |
| • | Who said love is blind? She is the only one who sees sharply: she discovers beauties where others do not notice. |
| • | It's never easy to negotiate with people who know they are wrong. |
| • | The most common illness among politicians is amnesia. |
| • | In France, we always have a government of people who know what they want: they want to stay in power. |
| • | A civilization comes about through the successive contributions of generations that support each other, like the stones of a building. |
| • | Intellectual is someone who is out to explain to others what he himself has not understood. |
| • | Ignorance, if carefully maintained, has at least the advantage of protecting the beneficiary from errors. |
| • | On Earth, the vast majority of people live in physical misery; the rest too often live in mental misery. |
| • | Experience shows that it is much easier to take hostages than to release them. |
| • | Karl Marx: a great man who had foreseen everything except Marxism. |
| • | People always speak of “blind fanaticism”, as if there were clairvoyant fanaticism too. |
