Famous quotes containing the words francis, years, ideological, shift, media and/or celebrity:
“One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)
“It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.”
—Baudouin I (b. 1930)
“There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
—Jiang Qing (1914–1991)
“They shift coffee-houses and chocolate-houses from hour to hour, to get over the insupportable labour of doing nothing.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“The media network has its idols, but its principal idol is its own style which generates an aura of winning and leaves the rest in darkness. It recognises neither pity nor pitilessness.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)