Federico Pena famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • To be a husbandman, is but a retreat from the city; to be a philosopher, from the world; or rather, a retreat from the world, as it is man's, into the world, as it is God's.

  • I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

  • Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

  • People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

  • In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

  • The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

  • Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

  • Cavil you may, but never criticise.

  • There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.

  • Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

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