Stephane Hessel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

From 1967, all the Israeli governments continued making two big mistakes: occupation and settlement in the territories.
-- Stephane Hessel

#Mistake #Two #Government
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
-- Stephane Hessel

#Real #Men #People
My mother once said to me, 'You must promise to be happy; it is the greatest favour you can do to others'. It has guided me throughout my life.
-- Stephane Hessel

#Mother #Promise #Favour
Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
-- Stephane Hessel

#Democracy #World #Financial
To create is to resist, to resist is to create.
-- Stephane Hessel

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Stephane Hessel famous quotes

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