L%C3%A9on Blum/the Popular Front

Famous quotes containing the words blum, popular and/or front:

    When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
    —Léon Blum (1872–1950)

    There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.
    Auguste Rodin (1849–1917)

    Let him front the object of his worst apprehension, and his stoutness will commonly make his fear groundless.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)