Elisabeth Badinter's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#2176
Democracy, it is this: learn to endure what horrifies you, that hurts you.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2177
If artists must reckon with the idea that they are responsible for what happens, so we set up self-censorship.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2178
That is what cause? It's having the courage to confront ideas received, to oppose the mainstream.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2179
Provocation can be tacky, absurd, generate reviews and reactions, but it is necessary.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2180
Cause, in the artistic sense of the term, to open our eyes, to break the world in which we live to think.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2181
Provocation, when it comes to the artist, provoking.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2182
The provocation is very valuable. She is absolutely necessary in a democracy.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2183
The provocateur is one who manages to change our opinion on our certainties, our feelings, our life.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2184
Laughter is, again, a vital weapon. To seduce, including...

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2185
The principle of the laugh is to create the gap between what is written and our critical spirit.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2186
There must be limits to political correctness, which is devouring us.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2187
Our political and journalistic elites are obsessed with moralism. The same coming scroll to freedom of expression.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2188
By compliance to the politically correct the number one value, we kill the literature.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2189
What is certain, is that fear is a bad advisor. Don't give in to fear.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2190
I can't bear the Marquis de Sade. I hate writings. However, I would hate that we censor

Elisabeth Badinter
(le magazine Lire, mars 2015)

#2191
Voltaire is the writer most appropriate to talk of laughter against stupidity and bigotry.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2192
If the man was made, as the Bible says, in the image of God, then you understand everything: because this God is often excruciating.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2193
Please re-read the Bible without the theological distance. And if one engages in this exercise, we discover some crazy stories.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2194
To do against any religious text: reading and exercise our critical spirit.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2195
There is contradiction among the emotion of January 11, 2015 and the politically correct who took over on January 12.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2196
I think that we must respect the men, not ideas.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2197
We don't have the right to cause hatred of individuals; on the other hand, we have the right to laugh at all the beliefs.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2198
School isn't the mosque or the Church, it is the place of knowledge and critical thinking.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2199
We go to school to develop his reason to think by oneself, to develop independent thinking.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2200
For some students, the creed is opposed to the cogito and outweighs him.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2201
Back to secularism: it is the only solution so that there can be peace between people from different backgrounds.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2202
The role of intellectuals is very important, because they are more credible than politicians.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2203
Today, lay people are a minority within the intelligentsia.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2204
It is unthinkable to censor that name of responsibility.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2205
An artist has to be accountable to posterity but not to his contemporaries.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

#2206
We take note of the birth of an irreducible women's willingness to share the universe and children with men.

Elisabeth Badinter
(L'Amour en plus)

#2207
Instead of instinct, would it not be better to speak of a fabulous social pressure that women cannot be accomplished in motherhood?

Elisabeth Badinter
(L'Amour en plus)

#2208
The driving force that pushed women to return to care for their children, it is simply their desire for power.

Elisabeth Badinter
(L'Amour en plus)

#2209
To date, only one difference remains, but essential: it is women who bear children and never men.

Elisabeth Badinter
(L’Un est l’autre)

#2210
Alienating and guilt for women, the myth of the maternal instinct is devastating for children, and in particular for the son.

Elisabeth Badinter
(XY - De l’identité masculine)

#2211
Women have not only economic value for the men who exchange them. They have first value peace and Alliance.

Elisabeth Badinter
(L’un est l’autre)

#2212
The resemblance is not conducive to the domination of one over the other. On the contrary, it rather encourages peace of gender.

Elisabeth Badinter
(L’Un est l’autre)

#2213
Selected or forced, transient or final, loneliness is more preferred to the forced link. We learn to develop it and to take advantage of his selfishness.

Elisabeth Badinter
(L’Un est l’autre)

#2214
It is the parent who invests more than her baby that becomes the focus of attachment - regardless of gender - and this report preferential does not other.

Elisabeth Badinter
(XY - De l’identité masculine)

#2215
Despite the current differentialist claims, we will steadfastly towards a model of resemblance. All men are not ambitious, all women are not fighters. A little close, one is another...

Elisabeth Badinter
(Entretien avec Pascale Frey - Octobre 1999)

#2216
Motherly love is infinitely complex and imperfect. Far from being an instinct, it takes rather a small miracle for this love is such that you described.

Elisabeth Badinter
(XY - De l’identité masculine)

#2217
Say that being a mother is not a natural instinct but a voluntary choice confronts us with the awful possibility that we could be born in the most total indifference.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Source inconnue)

#2218
Whenever we do put our differences before our similarities, we put the finger in a process of confrontation.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Source inconnue)

#2219
The commoditization of the sexes is not identity.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Fausse route)

#2220
We must learn to read, and to resist the politically correct.

Elisabeth Badinter
(Lire, 1er mars 2015)

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