Quotes
Authors
Francis Levy
"I am not for any form of repression, but I sometimes think the desire for liberation masks the desire for oblivion. It's very hard to tell the difference sometimes." --
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
Francis Levy
#Thinking Quotes
#Desire Quotes
#Sometimes Quotes
“I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get.”
“One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal.”
“No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”
“A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.”
Source : "Ideology and Utopia". Book by Karl Mannheim, 1936.
“What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.”
“Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain.”
“You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.”
“President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.”
