Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022) was French and Swiss writer, film director, and critic. He was an influential director of the post-World War II era, and is most well known for his films Breathless, Vivre sa vie, and Contempt.

There’s no point in having sharp images if you’ve got fuzzy ideas.

Cahiers du Cinéma, 1963

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In the case of Socrates, [his] executioner wept over the executed, but here, it is the [Christ] who is to be executed who weeps over the executioners. Such is the difference between a philosopher and God.

Fulton Sheen

Instead of fostering assimilation and harmony, our schools are increasingly a source of the very fragmentation that they earlier did so much to prevent.

Milton Friedman

Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence was effective with the British precisely because they were not inclined to use excessive force against unarmed civilians. . . . Would Gandhi’s tactics have worked with the Nazis?

Ibn Warraq

And, above all, don’t lie. Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to hell.

Jordan Peterson

No explanation is needed for a believer; no explanation suffices for an unbeliever.

Anonymous

Governments are instituted among men [to secure rights]. . . . Whenever [it] becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. . . .

U.S. Dec. of Independence

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

Douglas Merrill

[War is not] simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and nations would have rebelled long ago!

Anne Frank

For myself, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little to know who oppresses me; and I am not the more disposed to pass beneath the yoke, because it is held out to me by the arms of a million of men.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. . . . [This is] the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

George W. Bush

Do what we can and God will do the rest. What seems so impossible to nature is quite easy to grace.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

John Marshall

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare

You cannot plumb the depths of the human heart, nor find out what a man is thinking; how do you expect to search out God, who made all these things, and find out his mind or comprehend his thought?

Holy Bible

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

Aristotle

The buck stops with everybody.

Donald Trump

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Jesus Christ

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