Debray Quotes

#1. The count came back to young Morcerf.
'Don't you think,' he said, 'on reflection that you were wrong to speak in that way about your mother-in-law in front of Debray?'
'Please, Count,' Morcerf said. 'I beg you, don't use that word in anticipation.

Alexandre Dumas

#2. The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

Regis Debray

#3. Religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

Regis Debray

#4. I started - well, in England it works a little bit differently. You have to do Fringe theatre, which is basically free theatre. You do it in pubs and small theaters and village halls across the country, and you work for a theatre company. You're part of a troupe.

Joshua Sasse

#5. Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Regis Debray

#6. God, a born extremist, is the diplomat's worst enemy. Quite apart from the fact that His decrees are irrevocable, the Absolute will not allow anyone to relativize matters.

Regis Debray

#7. Books were the sustenance of God. And His munitions.

Regis Debray

#8. Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.

Regis Debray

#9. In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

Robert Delaunay

#10. It was Hyde, after all, and Hyde alone, that was guilty.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. There is something of the ghoul in the page-swallower and of the novel-reader in the stroller through cemeteries.

Regis Debray

#12. I mean, I'd like to see (Mitt Romney's) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool - the Mormon fire patrol.

Joy Behar

#13. The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance.
They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?

Jonathan Heatt

#14. Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.

Doug Stanhope

#15. We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

Regis Debray

#16. What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Erykah Badu

#17. I've gone cold turkey. Completely. I haven't even jerked off. Not once. In nine frigging days. I think the buildup of semen is starting to affect my brain. Like sugar to a diabetic.

Emma Chase

#18. Since the Cuban Revolution and since the invasion of Santo Domingo a state of emergency has existed in Latin America. The Marines shoot at anything that moves, regardless of partyaffiliation.

Regis Debray

#19. We all spend our lives kicking the crap out of ourselves for not being this way or that way, not having this thing or that thing, not being like this person or that person.

Shonda Rhimes

#20. The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.

Regis Debray

#21. Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

Gyan Nagpal