Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Alain Finkielkraut

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French essayist Alain Finkielkraut.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
Alain Finkielkraut

Alain Finkielkraut is a French philosopher and public intellectual. He has written books and essays on a wide range of topics, many on the ideas of tradition and identitary nonviolence, including Jewish identity and antisemitism, French colonialism, the mission of the French education system in immigrant assimilation, and the Yugoslav Wars. He often appears on French television.

Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history.  It is the companion that dogs our every step. — © Alain Finkielkraut
Barbarism is not the inheritance of our pre-history. It is the companion that dogs our every step.
Each man is contained and constrained, on entering social life, to fit his own life in, just as he fits his words and thoughts into a language that was formed without and before him and which is impervious to his power. Entering the game, as it were, whether of belonging to a nation or of using a language, a man enters arrangements which it does not fall to him to determine, but only to learn and respect the rules.
Silence dies, clamor takes the power everywhere
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