Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy quotes

“The absurd man is he who never changes.”
-- Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

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“The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.”
-- Auguste-Marseille Barthelemy

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“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?”

“There is no justice in following unjust laws.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.”

Source : "In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes" by Rick Gladstone, www.nytimes.com. February 10, 2012.

“Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.”

“There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.”

“I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.”

“Our conduct will never change God's character.”

“My words are like the stars that never change.”