Quote by Georges Bernanos
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but r

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. – Georges Bernanos

Other quotes by Georges Bernanos

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Fear
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What does the truth matter? Havent we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Deception/Lying
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. – Georges Bernanos

Category:
Peace
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Other Quotes from
Masses
category

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Category:
Masses

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Masses

Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics. – Carl Gustav Jung

Category:
Masses

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Masses

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Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem it is a deep-seated evil within our society. – Judith Light

Category:
Society

The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C – not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it. – Stephen Hawking

Category:
alone

Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Category:
Death

Im cool with failing so long as I know that there are people around me that love me unconditionally. – Dave Chappelle

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cool