"The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt."

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Source : "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 143, 1927.

Julien Benda

#Modern Quotes #Contempt Quotes #Romanticism Quotes

“Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.”
“When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.”
“I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.”
“It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.”
“My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.”
“Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.”
“'Yo I'm from Africa' Boy you're just a faker. Name one city: 'Uhh, Jamaica!' Wrong! And I think that's a shame, An African look with an American name.”

Source : Song: Be Black
“The unit of every country is the family and the strength of the country is based on the smiles of the children and songs of the adults.”

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