Aristide Briand famous quotes

04-21-2025

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
-- Aristide Briand

#Peace #Writing #Gun
Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.
-- Aristide Briand

#Europe #Wish #Together
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
-- Aristide Briand

#Thinking #People #Half
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.
-- Aristide Briand

#Views #Political #Links
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
-- Aristide Briand

#Mean #League #Connections
The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
-- Aristide Briand

#Europe #League #Groups
The man who is not a socialist at twenty has no heart, but if he is still a socialist at forty he has no head.
-- Aristide Briand

#Heart #Men #Twenties
Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.
-- Aristide Briand

#Learning #Forget
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
-- Aristide Briand

#Country #Justice #Battle

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
I don't know where the characters are going to go or what's going to happen. I know that something inevitable will happen. I know that they want certain things and they're in a certain room and they smell like this and they look like that. More often than not, an entropy creeps in that strangles me, and then the inevitable happens. I don't know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady's, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts. If I tried to write that it would just be false. Or I'd have someone enter with a machine gun.
Eating disorders are like a gun that's formed by genetics, loaded by a culture and family ideals, and triggered by unbearable distress.
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

Aristide Briand famous quotes

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