Maurice Druon quotes

“Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.”
-- Maurice Druon

Source : Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”

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“Every unjust act, even committed for the sake of a just cause, carries its curse with it.”
-- Maurice Druon

Source : Maurice Druon (1956). “The Accursed Kings: The strangled queen”

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“Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.”
-- Maurice Druon

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“Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.”
-- Maurice Druon

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“We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.”

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.”

“After a great deal of discussion in Soviet literature about the correct definition of a combination, it was decided that from the point of view of a methodical approach it was best to settle on this definition - A combination is a forced variation with a sacrifice.”

“In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed.”

“There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.”

“Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring.”

“There are not many original shapes or silhouettes -- only a million variations.”

“You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.”

“A rise of wages from this cause will, indeed, be invariably accompanied by a rise in the price of commodities; but in such cases, it will be found that labour and all commodities have not varied in regard to each other, and that the variation has been confined to money.”

Source : David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.47