Finkielkraut Youtube Quotes & Sayings

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict. — Avigdor Lieberman

Fear and control are the basis for all human religions. From this common beginning the paths diverge dramatically, splinter, multiply, and finally terminate in different places. But each one is an attempt to overcome suffering, fear, and death by exerting control over natural, and sometimes supernatural, forces. — Skye Jethani

The woman regarded him. Her hands shook. She was really very drunk. "I know everybody in this room," she said. "And you know what I see when I look at them? I don't see anybody I know. — Joy Williams

The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being. — Thomas I. Emerson

Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it. — Vincent Van Gogh

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have. — Wayde Goodall

I believe evidence is overwhelming that chronic Lyme is a terrible, overwhelming disease, and we need to find ways to treat this. To say otherwise is an inaccurate and unscientific opinion. — Chris Smith

First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well. — Jose Garcia Villa

If you're not a full-time missionary with a missionary badge pinned on your coat, now is the time to paint one on your heart-painted, as Paul said, 'not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God.' — Neil L. Andersen

If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. — Viviane Reding

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse. — D.H. Lawrence

There's a huge difference between love and need. Someone who needs you will put themselves first. Someone who loves you will put you first. — Robert Dugoni

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans - however "humanely" we treat them. — Gary L. Francione