Guerin Quotes & Sayings

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance. — Daniel Guerin

The collar came first, and when Guerin drew it from his neck he felt the collar's absence like a lightness, his spine unfurling, his shoulders settling.
Like a lie, cracking and dropping from him. — C.S. Pacat

The Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are! — Theodore Guerin

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. — Eugenie De Guerin

Because the picture is called 'Veronica Guerin,' you expect a biopic. But it's really about the last two years of her life. — Cate Blanchett

It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on. — Cate Blanchett

We are not called upon to do all the good that is possible, but only that which we can do. — Theodore Guerin

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection ... — Eugenie De Guerin

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property. — Daniel Guerin

[The Community's] crosses and trials give me confidence. But I derive my hope above all, and most especially, from our utter incapacity, for it is always upon nothingness that God is pleased to rear His works. If at any day we accomplish some good here, the glory will certainly be His alone, since He has employed for this end instruments more capable of spoiling everything than of making it succeed. — Theodore Guerin

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think. — Eugenie De Guerin

One fancies that what one loves cannot die. — Eugenie De Guerin

A little time separates us from those who depart - a time of tears, a time of sadness and solitude; but, that over, we go to rejoin them and to enjoy with them the society of the blessed. Oh, how sweetly the heart rests in this immortal hope! — Eugenie De Guerin

Fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Eugenie De Guerin

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain ... — Eugenie De Guerin

Like a lie, cracking and dropping from him. He looked at the gleam of the gold where Guerin placed it, halved, on the workbench. Veretian shackles. In the curve of its metal was every humiliation of his time in this country, every frustration at Veretian confinement, every indignity of an Akielon serving a Veretian master. Except that it was Kastor who had put the collar on him, and Laurent who was freeing him. It — C.S. Pacat

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings. — Eugenie De Guerin

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters. — Eugenie De Guerin

Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State. — Daniel Guerin

In God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration. — Eugenie De Guerin

Far from checking the spread of immorality, repression has always extended and deepended it. Thus it is futile to oppose it by rigorous legislation which trespasses on individual liberty. — Daniel Guerin

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel. — Eugenie De Guerin

Eve turned away as a whispered "yes, ma'am" reached her ears. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. Why was she saving this asshole? Eve opened her eyes and unlocked the heavy steel bolt securing the five-by-two slab of oak. She looked back, ready to give him the signal to haul ass, when all the air punched from her lungs.
Naked.
It was the only word her stunned mind could form. Eve spun in place, and her rear bumped against the door. Guerin stood there, completely nude, with his briefs and coat in his grip.
"W-wh-what are you doing?" Dear God, she was stuttering like a young girl who'd never seen "boy parts" before. — Jessica Lee

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart. — Eugenie De Guerin

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away? — Eugenie De Guerin

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul. — Eugenie De Guerin

One great mistake made by intelligent people is to refuse to believe that the world is as stupid as it is. — Claudine Guerin De Tencin

We are only here below as in an inn on a journey. Let us, then have the feelings of travelers. We should think a man very strange who attached himself much to his inn. The wise Christian will not do this. — Eugenie De Guerin

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. — Claudine Guerin De Tencin

To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities. — Daniel Guerin

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty. — Eugenie De Guerin

Let us never forget that if we wish to die like the Saints we must live like them. Let us force ourselves to imitate their virtues, in particular humility and charity. — Theodore Guerin

I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear. — Theodore Guerin