Famous quotes containing the words france and/or ruled:
“It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)