"Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too."

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Source : "L'Italia giacobina e carbonara" by Indro Montanelli, Rizzoli, Milano (p. 144), 1972.

Indro Montanelli

#Moralist Quotes

“Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their loins immortal spirits: when their families become numerous, they organize new worlds for them. [T]hey place their families upon the same.”
“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
“I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.”
“Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground”

Source : "Fullmetal Alchemist". Manga by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.
“The difference between a healthy environment and an unhealthy environment can be summed up in one word, and it's not 'CO2' or 'climate' or 'temperature.' It's 'development.' [...] Whether you're drinking clean drinking water, listening to a thunderstorm with pleasure instead of fear, or going to the Grand Canyon, you should be thanking Big Coal, Big Oil, and Big Gas.”
“Silence is the best substitute for brains ever invented.”
“If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.”
“Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.”

Source : "Jean Dubuffet, Works, writings Interviews". Book by Fabrice Hergott, p. 14, 2006.

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