Charles de Gaulle on art
Charles de Gaulle102 quotes“Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.”
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Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle You’ll live. Only the best get killed.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Don’t think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Never relinquish the initiative.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Every Frenchman wants to enjoy one or more privileges; that’s the way he shows his passion for equality.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Charles de GaulleCharles de Gaulle The leader is always alone before bad fates.
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Anthony JoshuaAnthony Joshua Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Happiness is a little bit of art on a sad day.
Alexandra Heather FossAlexandra Heather Foss Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.
Gilles DeleuzeGilles Deleuze If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.
Henri BergsonHenri Bergson Arts can save children, no matter what’s going on in their homes.
Afeni ShakurAfeni Shakur I know that my son was an honest person and an honest artist, and what he gave from himself through his art was the depth of his humanity.
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