Alain Finkielkraut Quotes & Sayings

Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere — Alain Finkielkraut

Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules. — Alain Finkielkraut

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step. — Alain Finkielkraut