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No one can act alone in the name of all and no one can accept the anarchy of a society without rules.
— Jacques Chirac
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
— Jacques Maritain
Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.
— Jacques Audiard
The Jacques Cousteau shows actually got me very excited about the fact that there's an alien world here on Earth.
— James Cameron
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and of Christians.
— Jacques Ellul
It was absolutely perfect. You can handle this large aircraft as you can handle a bicycle.
— Jacques Rosay
The law must have the last word.
— Jacques Chirac
If the soil were as good as the harbors, it would be a blessing.
— Jacques Cartier
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself.
— Jacques Derrida
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
— Jacques Chirac
Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished.
— Jacques Delors
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do you not know ... that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.
— Jacques Barzun
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
— Jacques Maritain
They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
— Jacques Chirac
As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure.
— Jacques Chirac
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reading in no way obliges us to understand.
— Jacques Lacan
A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
If you teach success, you will taste success!
— Jacques Van Der Merwe
Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
— Jacques Derrida
God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He came with death held in his paw Which no rat born could face Oh woe to those who break the law Of Sunflash and his mace!
— Brian Jacques
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
— Jacques Barzun
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.
— Jacques Attali
Playing goal is like being shot at.
— Jacques Plante
You can't build Europe against anyone.
— Jacques Santer
Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
By walking a long time in an environment, landscapes begin to influence on your mood, as( landscapes) change, your feelings do.
— Jacques Lecoq
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.
— Jacques Lacan
When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There is no absolute peril except for him who abandons himself; There is no complete death except for him who aquires a taste of dying.
— Jacques Riviere
The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.
— Jacques Maritain
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived ... (Bk2:3)
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.
— Jacques Verges
May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Is not the light of day a wondrous thing? It banishes all fears and worries of the previous night.
— Brian Jacques
Power without authority is tyranny.
— Jacques Maritain
The future of nutrition is found in the oceans
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Chance and necessity.
— Jacques Monod
The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
— Jacques Lipchitz
The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.
— Jacques Audiard
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
— Jacques Benigne Bossuel
Our ancestors have travelled the iron age; the golden is before us.
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.
— Jacques Barzun
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.
— Jacques Ellul
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jacques Rudolph at the moment is using the inside edge as much as the middle of the bat.
— Ian Botham
Was it magic? Of course it was.
— Brian Jacques
Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?
— Jacques Hadamard
It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.
— Jacques Pierre Brissot
In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Experience is the cane of the blind.
— Jacques Roumain
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Just those of us with sisters-in-laws who bounce off walls. I feel like I am watching a Ping-Pong ball. Settle down.
— Christine Feehan
The Golden Age of Secularism has passed.
— Jacques Berlinerblau
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
— Martin Jacques
If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.
— Jacques Plante
To live is not breathing it is action.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fate operates when people give up
— Jacques Ellul
The general will is always right.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
— Jacques Barzun
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
— Jacques Barzun
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!
— Brian Jacques
I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.
— Jacques Delors
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
— Jacques Barzun
Because of the myth of progress, it is much easier to sell a man an electric razor than a straight-edged one.
— Jacques Ellul
I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
— Jacques-Henri Lartigue
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
— Jacques Audiard
I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.
— Jacques Myard
The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau