Marie De Gournay Quotes

#1. It looks like to watch a film without little horror is like to eat a pizza without the extra stuff on it. Like the sauces!

Deyth Banger

#2. If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt - above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it's the victim who's doing something wrong.

David Graeber

#3. Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Alan Bullock

#4. Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

Marie De Gournay

#5. Your children are your legacy to the world. As you raise them with love, you contribute to making this world a better place.

Kristine Carlson

#6. The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.

Marie De Gournay

#7. Of all needs a book has,
the chief need is to be readable.

Anthony Trollope

#8. Ignorance is the mother of presumption

Marie De Gournay

#9. I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.

Garry Kasparov

#10. Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.

Marie De Gournay

#11. Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.

Ian McKellen

#12. Certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

Marie De Gournay

#13. The most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.

Marie De Gournay

#14. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Marie De Gournay

#15. There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death.

William Shakespeare