Leon Blum famous quotes

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
-- Leon Blum

#Choices #May #Ethics

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
-- Leon Blum

#World #Fascism #Conscience

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
-- Leon Blum

#Freedom #Men #Liberty

You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
-- Leon Blum

#Reality #Realms

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
-- Leon Blum

#Children #Twenties #Thirty

Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
-- Leon Blum

#Giving #Choices #Trying

The cause of Freedom and the cause of Peace are bound together.
-- Leon Blum

#Together #Causes

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

The best cinema is about ethics.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.