D.B.C. Pierre Quotes

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them.

It's with my brush that I make love.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.

If we wish to quench our thirst, we must lay aside books which explain thirst and take a drink.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

We don't think every man should be free to pass on everything to his descendants.

Society is responsible for its social organization, and if it can't provide the wherewithal for men to be gainfully employed then it should pay the penalty and give them welfare.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

Don't be afraid to spend money to make money. That's one thing I've never been afraid of... to invest in myself.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

To see more is to become more.

To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.

Your creatures can come into being only, like shoot from stem, as part of an endlessly renewed process of evolution.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Love is what makes me live, quite simply. It's the only thing that makes me work. It made me become what I am today.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

For the first 50 years of your life the food industry is trying to make you fat. Then, the second 50 years, the pharmaceutical industry is treating you for everything.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

I was a Member of the European Parliament for a period of time and I saw a lot of European laws and treaties.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.

To love is to approach each other center to center.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

The man who pardons easily courts injury.

Too long have we been silent under unjust and unholy charges; we cannot expect to have them removed until we disprove them through ourselves.

If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

Fear can be a natural ally, a homemade power source... Staying in the present, fear can only help you.

Humility is the first rule of martial arts. Either you learn humility quickly, or you leave because your ego can't handle losing repeatedly.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

I was just pursuing what I enjoyed doing. I mean, I was pursuing my passion.