Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
Without
Press
Sign
God
Pseudonym
Ought
Pseudonyms
Chance
Censors
Free
Censoring
Government
Censorship
Ever
Presses
More quotes by Anatole France
The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
Anatole France
Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
Anatole France
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
Anatole France
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Change is the essence of life.
Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.
Anatole France
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole France
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
Anatole France
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
Anatole France
A woman without breasts is like a bed without pillows.
Anatole France
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.
Anatole France
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
Anatole France