Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--a...n almond tree or an oil well?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable part...s. That would solve the entire problem of management.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How comes it that you curse, Frere Jean? It's only, said the monk, in order to embellish my language. They are the colors of Cicer...onian rhetoric.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of a...ny man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:... "Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Frenchman Jean-Paul ... Sartre I remember now was his last name had a dialectical mind good as a machine for cybernetics, imme...nse in its way, he could peel a nuance like an onion, but he had no sense of evil, the anguish of God, and the possible existence of Satan.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the time there was a claustral monk named Frere Jean of the Hashes, who was young, gallant, joyful, good natured, dextrous, bol...d, adventurous, thoughtful, tall, thin, with a capacious mouth, gifted in the nose, a great dispatcher of hours, quite an accomplisher of masses, a quick doer-in of vigils,--to put it in a nutshell, a true monk if ever there's been one since this monk of a world first monked out a monk; moreover, a cleric to his very teeth in matters of the breviary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jean Jacques Rousseau ... is nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understa...nd it, and approached it with the heart of an upstart flunkey.... For all his preaching a Republic and the overthrow of monarchical titles, the upstart is mad with joy if a Duke alters the course of his after-dinner stroll to accompany one of his friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most modern fortifications have an air of antiquity about them; they have the aspect of ruins in better or worse repair from t...he day they are built, because they are not really works of this age. The very place where the soldier resides has a peculiar tendency to become old and dilapidated, as the word barrack implies. I couple all fortifications in my mind with the dismantled Spanish forts to be found in so many parts of the world; and if in any place they are not actually dismantled, it is because that there the intellect of the inhabitants is dismantled.... Such structures carry us back to the Middle Ages, the siege of Jerusalem, and St. Jean d'Acre, and the days of the Bucaniers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »