We forgive the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.
– Marcel Proust
Related Quotes:
- Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off. – Terry Pratchett
- The fool’s crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man’s crime is the crime that is not found out. – Wilkie Collins
- Crime? What crime? … My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman … and you call that a crime? – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. – Albert Camus
- The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes. – Larry McMurtry
- There was also the fact that sometimes vampires committed crimes worse than murder. They commited crimes against fashion. – Cassandra Clare
- If you demand the collective to pay for your medical expenses, then be prepared for the collective to demand to make your medical decisions for you. – AE Samaan
- Diversity of thought is in demand, for boosting collective creativity and harnessing collective wisdom. – Pearl Zhu
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- That’s the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don’t care, individuals do. – Mark Twain
- Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. – Karl Marx
- I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities. – Ayn Rand
- This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned. – Mark Zero
- Crime should not pay, it must be punished. Unfortunately, in Pakistan big crimes do get rewarded. – Imran Khan
- The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day. – Marcel Proust
- Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude. – Marcel Proust
- A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself. – Marcel Proust
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner. – Marcel Proust
- After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated. – Marcel Proust
- … rejoicing in a peace which brings only an increase of anxiety,… – Marcel Proust
- She’s got feet like boats, whiskers like an American, and her undies are filthy. – Marcel Proust
- Sadness had reigned in undisputed sovereignty over his shadowed childhood. – Marcel Proust
- It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering. – Marcel Proust
- Presently, one after another, like shyly hopping sparrows, her friends arrived, black against the snow. – Marcel Proust
- Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were. – Marcel Proust
- For with the perturbations of memory are linked the intermittencies of the heart. – Marcel Proust
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
- that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching to seek pleasure elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth. – Marcel Proust
- It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. – Marcel Proust
- … sterile, splendid torture of understanding and loving… – Marcel Proust
- One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
- Quite half of the human race was in tears. – Marcel Proust
- It is a mistake to speak of a bad choice in love, since as soon as there is a choice it can only be a bad one. – Marcel Proust
- … the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves… – Marcel Proust
- When we are nice to others, we generally lose all claim to their respect. – Marcel Proust
- Ideas are substitutes for sorrows… – Marcel Proust
- …for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own. – Marcel Proust
- A ‘sadist’ of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be… – Marcel Proust
- His [Morel’s] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. – Marcel Proust