Max Gallo famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.
-- Max Gallo

#Past #Criminals #Description
Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.
-- Max Gallo

#France #Obsolete #States
I was never a believer in decline.
-- Max Gallo

#Decline #Believer
The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.
-- Max Gallo

#Couple #Paris #Way
Political scientists have often described Gaullism as a sort of Bonapartism. I myself have occasionally compared Sarkozy to Napoleon Bonaparte.
-- Max Gallo

#Political #Scientist #Bonaparte

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.
What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.
Attention must be given to the penal consequences of violations of the right to peace, including the punishment by domestic courts or in due time by the International Criminal Court of those who have engaged in aggression and propaganda for war.
Fabricating reality was criminal; editing it, commonplace.
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.
One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous condition to feel so disabled by the ordinary business of quotidian life.
When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.
I feel that I'm solid at description.

Max Gallo famous quotes

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