Robert Badinter Quotes

#1. We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#2. Only through the development of mutual respect, and in a spirit of truth, can friendship come about. By these means it is possible to move human minds, but never by force.

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

Robert H. Schuller

#4. One of the detectives was later heard to comment that Perry Reed was officially in more trouble than any other single human being he'd ever encountered in the course of his entire career....

John Connolly

#5. Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

Umberto Eco

#6. Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#7. Things touched Claire. Maybe too much, but at least they touched her. She couldn't twist things around in her mind, make the ends come out right.

Janet Fitch