"Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds"

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Henri La Fontaine

#Sheep Quotes #Shepherds Quotes #Slaughterhouses Quotes

“The peoples are not awake...[There are dangers] which will render a world organization impossible. I foresee the renewal of...the secret bargaining behind closed doors. Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples.”
Henri La Fontaine
“There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!”
Henri La Fontaine
“There are cinÃ©philes and cinÃ©phages. Truffaut is a cinÃ©phile. A cinÃ©phage - a film nerd - sits in the front row and writes down the credits. But if you ask him whether it's good, he'll say something sharp. But that's not the point of movies: to love cinema is to love life, to really look at this window on the universe. It's incompatible with note-taking!”
Henri La Fontaine
“An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms and rebuild a new world. The problem with cinema today is the dearth of troublemakers. Thereâ€™s not a rabble-rouser in sight. There was still one, but he went beyond troublemaker to court jester. He clobbered the status quo. Thatâ€™s Godard. Weâ€™re fresh out of â€˜bad students.â€™ Youâ€™ll find students masquerading as bad ones, but you wonâ€™t find the real article, because a genuine bad student upends everything.”
Henri La Fontaine
“An art form requires genius. People of genius are always troublemakers, meaning they start from scratch, demolish accepted norms, and rebuild a new world.”
Henri La Fontaine

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