"The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more."

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Source : Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

Georges Bernanos

#Rights Quotes #Doe Quotes #Modern Quotes

“My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.”
“Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.”
“The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.”
“In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side.”
“...The Marines have been the first to land-on embattled beaches throughout the world-we share the unfaltering confidence of all Americans that they will land again-and land hard.”
“There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion.”
“I lift weights and I run, thats what I do.”
“Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of popular history, and do so impressively.”

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