Paul Marat Quotes

#1. It seems that the inevitable fate of man is never attain complete freedom: princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude.

Jean-Paul Marat

#2. Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

Jean-Paul Marat

#3. To form a truly free constitution, that's to say, truly just and wise, the first point, the main point, the capital point, is that all the laws be agreed on by the people, after considered reflection, and especially having taken time to see what's at stake ...

Jean-Paul Marat

#4. the Apple III, whose footprint had to be small enough to leave lots of open room on an office desk, would be absolutely silent, which meant no internal cooling fan.

Brent Schlender

#5. Ze soldiers are very hoppy shooting ze pipples who say that ze pipples are not hoppy.

George Hamilton

#6. God has always been hard on the poor.

Jean-Paul Marat

#7. In the beginning there was nothing, only time. But since there was no one to count the time, there might as well have been nothing. And then there was an egg. Don't ask how it got there, OK.

Isabel Greenberg

#8. Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

Jean-Paul Marat

#9. Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species.

Sarah Beth Durst

#10. It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.

Jean-Paul Marat

#11. Heaven knows what seeming nonsense may not tomorrow be demonstrated truth.

Alfred North Whitehead

#12. Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.

William Arthur Ward

#13. You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

David Lynch

#14. An entrepreneurial economy is what made America great. People didn't come to settle the country several hundred years ago for all the good paying jobs. There weren't any. There was nothing but natural resources and opportunities. - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Chris Lutz

#15. In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

Jean-Paul Marat

#16. Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.

Mario Testino

#17. I'm terrified of motorcycles. I've been on one a couple of times. I did not like it.

Henry Rollins

#18. You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge

Flannery O'Connor

#19. How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

Jean-Paul Marat

#20. [We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people ... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.

Jean-Paul Marat

#21. Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.

Jean-Paul Marat