JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
secret undertakings nations
Few secret undertakings ever did any nation any good.
self retrospect easy
Self-righteousness in retrospect is easy--also cheap,
mean history use
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
important answers important-questions
Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.
television habit reactions
Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.
revenge consciousness habit
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
book thinking should-have
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.
order soldier world
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
war presidential democracy
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
intuition excellence intellectual
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
men destiny brave
Brave men earn the right to shape their own destiny.
memories history individual
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
war firsts
All wars are popular for the first 30 days.
past remember aphorism
Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.