Famous quotes containing the words gaulle, politics and/or grandeur:
“I respect only those who resist me; but I cannot tolerate them.”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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