Top 30 Vichy Quotes
#1. The Vichy government was under occupation and carried out the orders of the German occupier.
Jean-Marie Le Pen
#2. Vichy emerged not only from what divided the French but also what united them: pacifism, fear of population decline, loss of confidence in national identity, anti-Semitism, discontent with existing political institutions, ambivalence about modernity. The existence of this common
Julian T. Jackson
#3. Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.
Frederic Raphael
#5. Now, if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French, based upon movies, rumors, recent headlines, unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters, or ... you know ... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.
Robert O. Paxton
#7. Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.
David Bezmozgis
#11. Holy shit, Strawberry Shortcake just ran me over.
J. Lynn
#13. The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.
Virginia Woolf
#15. The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.
Iain Pears
#17. You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.
Joyce Carol Oates
#18. Mason was leaving her for a fifty-four-year-old woman who didn't moisturize
Jennifer Crusie
#23. The ego is just part of who we are. Sometimes it's great and helps us move forward and sometimes it's a bummer.
Jai Uttal
#24. Galatians 5:18 asks, "Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?" (MSG).
Rick Warren
#25. Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons, I cannot understand why it is generally held in the United States that we completely missed the basic principle of the bomb until after Hiroshima.
Werner Heisenberg
#26. But at that moment she had known, with a certainty she would never feel about anything else in her life, that it was right, that she wanted this man in her life. Something inside her said, He understands. What it's like to be different.
Celeste Ng
#29. I just want the fans of the book to be happy. I don't necessarily care about anyone else.
Kristen Stewart
