Top 42 Benjamin Constant Quotes
#1. I would give a hundred Hemingways for one Stendhal or one Benjamin Constant. And I regret the influence of this literature on many young writers.
(1945)
Albert Camus
#2. The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant.
Francis Parker Yockey
#3. I am neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, I am a man, I am a vampire.
Michael Romkey
#4. Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin
#5. 'Tis true there is much to be done, ... but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones ... and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says ...
Benjamin Franklin
#6. No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being ...
Benjamin Constant
#7. We are such volatile creatures, we finally feel sentiments we feign
Benjamin Constant
#8. Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)
Benjamin Constant
#9. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
#11. A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
Marian Sandmaier
#12. Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.
Jeff Sharlet
#13. Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin
#14. Sorrow was my constant companion, even though I no longer wept. It was the shadow that followed me on sunny days, the weight pressing down upon my spirits on cloudy ones.
Melanie Benjamin
#15. I cannot be Mary Hart - or even worse, Samantha Harris - and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it.
Chelsea Handler
#16. There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
Amanda Palmer
#17. There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power ... on the contrary, they must be given less power.
Benjamin Constant
#19. It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along
Benjamin Constant
#20. We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.
David Attenborough
#22. There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.
Benjamin Constant
#23. I think sometimes we give people a lot of credit just because they're writing nice sentences even if it isn't adding up to much.
James Patterson
#24. I continued to find myself in a constant process of attempting to deconstruct values that were cultural and replace them with the legitimate teachings of Jesus - no matter how crazy that made me look to the world or Christians around me.
Benjamin L. Corey
#25. I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
Bob Menendez
#26. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
Benjamin Franklin
#27. Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!
Benjamin Constant
#28. If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.
Benjamin Constant
#29. Nearly always, so as to live at peace with ourselves, we disguise our own impotence and weakness as calculation and policy; it is our way of placating that half of our being which is in a sense a spectator of the other.
Benjamin Constant
#31. Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
Benjamin Constant
#32. I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.
Benjamin Bratt
#34. Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?
Benjamin Franklin
#35. Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.
Benjamin Franklin
#36. I want to be in the water with you again, nani girl. Her knees went weak and trembles raced down her spine. Beautiful girl had been a special nickname only he used.
Robin Bielman
#37. Political liberty involves every citizen without exception in the examination and study of his most sacred interest. It aggrandizes the spirit, ennobles the mind, and establishes among all of them a sort of intellectual quality which makes for a people who are both glorious and powerful.
Benjamin Constant
#38. The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
Benjamin Constant
#39. I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
Jaron Lanier
#40. Plato judged right, that except kings themselves became philosophers, they who from their childhood are corrupted with false notions would never fall in entirely with the counsels of philosophers, and this he himself found to be true in the person of Dionysius.
Thomas More
#41. Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Benjamin Franklin
#42. The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Benjamin N. Cardozo
