Quote by Georges Bernanos
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is t

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – Georges Bernanos

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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. – Georges Bernanos

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

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Masses
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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

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Deception/Lying
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Society
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. – V. S. Naipaul

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Society

The finest clothing made is a persons own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. – Mark Twain

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Society

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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Society

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

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Society

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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. – Sarah Bernhardt

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I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? – Colin Hay

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