Bao ?ai famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.
-- Bao ?ai

#Country #Independent #Independent Women
As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
-- Bao ?ai

#Years #Twenties #Reign
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
-- Bao ?ai

#War #Government #Given
The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord.
-- Bao ?ai

#War #Lasts #Ends
In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
-- Bao ?ai

#Mean #Division #Unions
I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.
-- Bao ?ai

#Army #Blood #People
I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
-- Bao ?ai

#Country #Independent #Citizens

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Hitler's dictatorship differed in one fundamental point from all its predecessors in history. It was the first dictatorship in the present period of modern technical development, a dictatorship which made complete use of all technical means for the domination of its own country. Through technical devices like the radio and the loud-speaker, eighty million people were deprived of independent thought. It was thereby possible to subject them to the will of one man.
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

Bao ?ai famous quotes

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