Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Elias Canetti
Age: 89 †
Born: 1905
Born: July 25
Died: 1994
Died: August 14
Aphorist
Author
Chemist
Essayist
Novelist
Playwright
Writer
Rousse
Elías Canetti
Literature
Everyone
Contribute
Also
Owners
Enough
Production
Productions
Requires
Food
Justice
More quotes by Elias Canetti
Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
Elias Canetti
I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.
Elias Canetti
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
Elias Canetti
The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.
Elias Canetti
Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf
Elias Canetti
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.
Elias Canetti
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
Elias Canetti
Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
Elias Canetti
It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.
Elias Canetti
As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Elias Canetti
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
Elias Canetti
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
Elias Canetti
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
Elias Canetti
Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.
Elias Canetti
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
Elias Canetti
Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.
Elias Canetti
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti
Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.
Elias Canetti
Learning is the art of ignoring.
Elias Canetti
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
Elias Canetti
