Quote

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Fall
Soldier
Hands
Gun
Live
Fellows
Massacre
Good
Essential
Bandits
Would
Essentials
Urged
Like
Killing
Massacres
Army
Persuade
Deserve
Decent

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Andre Gide
Image
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
Image
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
Image
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
Image
Please do not understand me too quickly.
Andre Gide
Image
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
Image
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
Image
When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.
Andre Gide
Image
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
Image
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Andre Gide
Image
The wise man is astonished by anything.
Andre Gide
Image
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
Andre Gide
Image
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Andre Gide
Image
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
Andre Gide
Image
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
Image
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Andre Gide
Image
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Andre Gide
Image
The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide
Image
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
Image
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Andre Gide