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France, Anatole
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From: The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Date: 20040101
Author:ELIZABETH KNOWLES
France, Anatole 1844–1924 French writer
1. Imitation lies at the root of most human actions. A respectable person is one who conforms to custom. People are called good when they do as others do. Crainquebille (1923)
2. Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom. La Vie en fleur (1922)
3. Make hatred hated!
to public school teachersspeech in Tours, August 1919; Carter Jefferson Anatole France: The Politics of Scepticism (1965)
4. You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.in L'Humanité 18 July 1922
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