Andre Glucksmann quotes

Andre Glucksmann quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.”
-- Andre Glucksmann

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“We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking economic efficiency with social protection, has broken down”
-- Andre Glucksmann

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“A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.”
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”
“There is no vaccine against stupidity.”
“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”

Source : Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”
“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”

Source : Alec Guinness (1998). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Penguin Mass Market
“The unrighteous are never really fortunate.”
“To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek.”
“Non violence is not a thing that comes easily. You have to learn how to be non-violent”
“I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.”

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