Quote #14
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
More from Ernest Renan
- Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
- The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
- Man makes holy what he believes.
- The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
- Communism is in conflict with human nature.
- When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
- All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
- You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one ou…