Montesquieu Quotes

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Montesquieu

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: January 18, 1689 - February 10, 1755

Topics

ReligionSpiritMoreHumanReason

A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

Jimmy Reid

SilenceSocietyFaceYouInjustice

I've always loved Don Cheadle and Jeffery Wright and even Sam Jackson.

Andre Royo

LovedAlwaysEvenSamWright

We've become such a multitasking society that just paying attention to the road doesn't seem to be that important anymore. I have to remind my kids all the time that that's what you're supposed to be doing in the car.

Andie MacDowell

CarTimeSocietyRoadDoingYou

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

Angie Stone

FeelGivingYouPricePersonPay

I learned how to lend money by cleaning up the messes of others who had made loans before me.

John Stumpf

MoneyMeCleaningOthersUpMade

Everything we talk about is about beating the Packers, the Bears and the Vikings. Obviously there are other teams in the league, but if you can dominate and be on top of your division you are always in the playoff hunt. It's time for us to win that thing.

Steve Mariucci

TimeWinYouTalkTopEverything

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Siri Hustvedt

WorkTimeArtLateMuseumFirst

You know I need that cockiness, the self-belief, arrogance, swagger, whatever you want to call it, I need that on the golf course to bring the best out of myself. So you know once I leave the golf course, you know that all gets left there.

Rory McIlroy

MyselfBestArroganceGolfYouKnow

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

GoodWordsThinkMeaningYouDown

For a ballerina, the worst thing imaginable is big thighs.

Mary Helen Bowers

WorstBigBallerinaWorst Thing

Away from the pitch, I'm a very calm person. I maybe have the odd cross word with my wife, like any relationship, but that's it.

Luis Suarez

RelationshipWifeCalmPersonAway

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

Louise Nurding

WorkHomeCreativeBrainI CanWant

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