Regis Debray famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.
-- Regis Debray

#Leadership #Sacrifice #Roles
Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.
-- Regis Debray

#Differences #Opposites #Harmony
Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.
-- Regis Debray

#Thinking #Giving #Able
Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize 'ideologies,' desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the material bases of systems of inscription, and psychoanalyze not souls but tools. That is, in one and the same gesture, make our mnemo-technic equipment intelligible as mentality and our mental equipment intelligible as technology.
-- Regis Debray

#Technology #Soul #Understanding
We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.
-- Regis Debray

#Play #History #Wearing A Mask
God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.
-- Regis Debray

#Enemy #Matter #Diplomats
Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.
-- Regis Debray

#Book
Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.
-- Regis Debray

#Latin #Moving #Marine

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
My beautiful soul,"he murmured and caressed my cheek."When you have the ultimate selfless sacrifice it paid my wrong.You proved to be worthy of my devotion.Of Death's...love.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?
We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.
Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

Regis Debray famous quotes

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