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Letter "G" » Georges Bernanos Quotes
«Hope is a risk that must be run»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| About:
Hope
«The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| About:
Corruption,
Society
| Keywords:
corruption, End justifies the means, justifies
«I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.»
«A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.»
«When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
cherished, Don, donning, Don Quixote, huge, let down, revenged, sheer, uninterrupted
«And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- ''enemies of society,'' as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
blasphemer, blasphemers, convict, felon, felons, hunted, include, inconvenient, in advance, layman, laymen, penal, profane, Reasonable man
«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.»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
adolescence, first flight, hover, hovered, hovers, irony, mixture, surrounds, tenderness, watchfulness, young bird
«Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.»
Author: Georges Bernanos
| Keywords:
come off, despises, endowed, hospitals, installment, installments, judas, laboratories, Libraries, magnificent, niche, niches, public funds, public libraries, public library, scheme, The Deal
«Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.»
«No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.»
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