Claude Lanzmann Quotes

#1. One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

W. H. Auden

#2. Making a history was not what I wanted to do. I wanted to construct something more powerful than that

Claude Lanzmann

#3. Indeed one of the ultimate advantages of an education is simply coming to the end of it.

B.F. Skinner

#4. Mr Verloc extended as much recognition to Stevie as a man not particularly fond of animals may give to his wife's beloved cat; and this recognition, benevolent and perfunctory, was essentially of the same quality.

Joseph Conrad

#5. You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will.

Ericka Williams

#6. I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

Art Buchwald

#7. You can always tell when it's Friday. There's an excitement specific to Fridays, coupled with relief that another week has passed

Robyn Schneider

#8. We are not going to damage our safety and our security. We're not going to give those extremists the privilege to come so freely to Israel in order to carry out more attacks against us and kill us one day after another.

Silvan Shalom

#9. The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Timothy Noah

#10. We need to set our affections on one good man and keep him constantly before our eyes, so that we may live as if he were watching us and do everything as if he saw what we were doing.

Epicurus

#11. Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

Lorrie Moore

#12. I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

Claude Lanzmann

#13. I think that no one human being would have been able to look at [a hypothetical photographic record of the Nazi gassing of Jews] ... I would have preferred to destroy it. It is not visible.

Claude Lanzmann

#14. Walk on air against your better judgment.

Lola Darling