Jaures Jean Quotes & Sayings

Violence is the sign of temporary weakness. — Jean Jaures

I was never one for looking at beautiful scenery, and certainly not since 1933; it distracts from the more important and admittedly metropolitan business of keeping an eye out for the Gestapo, which, with my politics, is an ever-present dilemma. — Philip Kerr

We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes. — Jean Jaures

I was useless, that I leave my socks hanging on every doorknob in the house. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her. — Jill Conner Browne

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed. — Jean Jaures

You don't meet a lot of people that you really like. I don't anyway. — Nick Cave

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. — Jean Jaures

In our narrow, confined existence, we tend to forget the essence of life ... All of us, whatever our occupation or class, are equally guilty: the employer is lost in the running of his business; the workers, sunk in the abyss of their misery, raise their heads only to cry in protest; we, the politicians, are lost in daily battles and corridor intrigues. All of us forget that before everything else, we are men, ephemeral beings lost in the immense universe, so full of terrors. We are inclined to neglect the search for the real meaning of life, to ignore the real goals - serenity of the spirit and sublimity of the heart ... To reach them - that is the revolution. — Jean Jaures

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive. — Jean Jaures

High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. — Philip Sidney