French Quotes

You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

Hope raises no dust.

Elephants are contagious.

The intellectual who wants to do her work properly must today go back to the starting point: the woman whom she knows, and first of all to herself. It is at that level, and at no other, that she ought to begin to think about the world situation.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.

The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment.

The Holy Spirit alone can do this, the Holy Spirit alone can establish this link with one's neighbor.

The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.

All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.

Europe is merely powerful; India is beautiful.

Clemency is also a revolutionary measure.

Friends are relatives you make for yourself.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

Everything is self-evident.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.