Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
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
Country
Think
Thinking
Industrialists
Dying
Dies
More quotes by Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.
Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
It is in the ability to deceive oneself that the greatest talent is shown.
Anatole France
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
Anatole France
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
Anatole France
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
Sometimes one day in a difference place gives you more than ten years of a life at home.
Anatole France
Silence is the wit of fools.
Anatole France
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
Anatole France
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
Anatole France
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do not develop without training.
Anatole France
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole France
People who don't count won't count.
Anatole France
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
Anatole France
