Caustique ? Vous voulez dire : méchant ? Oui, je suis un peu méchant, dit Settembrini. Mon regret c'est que je sois obligé de gaspiller ma méchanceté à des sujets aussi misérables. J'espère que vous n'avez rien contre la méchanceté, mon cher ingénieur. A mon sens, c'est l'arme la plus étincelante de la raison contre les puissances des ténèbres et de la laideur. La méchanceté, monsieur, est l'esprit de la critique, et la critique est à l'origine du progrès et des lumières de la civilisation.


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For passion, like crime does not sit well with the sure order and even course of everyday life. It w...
THOMAS MANN
Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre...
THOMAS MANN
Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the fai...
THOMAS MANN
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
THOMAS E. MANN
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk t...
THOMAS E. MANN
Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the...
THOMAS E. MANN
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with...
THOMAS E. MANN
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ide...
THOMAS E. MANN
Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an envir...
THOMAS E. MANN
Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican ...
THOMAS E. MANN
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisa...
THOMAS E. MANN
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and...
THOMAS E. MANN
Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and s...
THOMAS E. MANN
Mandates are not objective realities but subjective interpretations of elections sold successfully b...
THOMAS E. MANN
All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September...
THOMAS E. MANN
The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attac...
THOMAS E. MANN
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
THOMAS E. MANN
In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, w...
THOMAS E. MANN
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan off...
THOMAS E. MANN
First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerate...
THOMAS E. MANN
Democrats do best in urban centers, Republicans in outer suburbs and rural areas.
THOMAS E. MANN
If those train wrecks and if that gamesmanship is being driven by broad political forces, narrow mar...
THOMAS MANN (BROOKINGS INSTITUTION)
It could become much worse. I could imagine a scenario in the next presidential election in which we...
THOMAS MANN (BROOKINGS INSTITUTION)
This is the ugliest period in our politics in many decades, ... tribalism.
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
The energy on cultural issues has been on the side of the conservatives,
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
In the old days, [the committee] raised small amounts of money, doled it out to people who didn't ne...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
I think Governor Bush can feel very confident that Cheney will not be a negative and will be a marve...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
The problem will be finding floor time, especially in the Senate, where Supreme Court nominations, a...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
They feel emboldened in a way that they weren't after 9-11. They see that their criticisms help shap...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
You don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
They are trying to neutralize this issue cluster with Kerry's war record and with lots of pleasing r...
THOMAS MANN (BROOKINGS INSTITUTION)
On every other aspect of his agenda, he is pretty close to dead in the water. This is one area of pr...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST)
Eventually, my highbrow parents, who so hated the Eisenhower suburban culture of the 1950s that the ...
SALLY MANN
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while re...
SALLY MANN
I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi...
SALLY MANN
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, bo...
SALLY MANN
I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
SALLY MANN
I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN
I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.
SALLY MANN
I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
SALLY MANN
At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the ...
SALLY MANN
It's usually so fraught when you're taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and...
SALLY MANN
If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
SALLY MANN
I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, an...
SALLY MANN
Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
SALLY MANN
I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packe...
SALLY MANN
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
SALLY MANN
Very few males have the confidence to appear vulnerable.
SALLY MANN
Time, memory, loss and love are my main artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the ...
SALLY MANN
I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN
I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about...
SALLY MANN
You start blocking out things, and that's a really important part of taking a picture is the abi...
SALLY MANN
When we were on the farm, we were isolated, not just by geography but by the primitive living condit...
SALLY MANN
I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity...
SALLY MANN
When I read something, I picture that scene in that detail. That becomes very similar to composing a...
SALLY MANN
Each time you take a good picture, you have the wonderful feeling of exhilaration... and almost inst...
SALLY MANN
In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o...
MANFRED MANN
The age of 18 seemed the right time to try something different in my life. Moving to the U.K. was a ...
MANFRED MANN
I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the coun...
MANFRED MANN
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.
HEINRICH MANN
More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and exhaust your time and...
HORACE MANN
Affectation hides three times as many virtues as charity does sins.
HORACE MANN
To pity, distress it but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
HORACE MANN
The Forgotten Arm. I don't know if we'd do an acoustic thing or bring the band back or what we'd do ...
AIMEE MANN
We recorded the band pretty much live.
AIMEE MANN
I'm not into music as a consumer. A songwriter should share their outlook with a measure of honesty,...
AIMEE MANN
Something isn't right ? I don't know how I know,
AIMEE MANN
I really wanted the record to have a ... feel of an era,
AIMEE MANN
I don't think it's really a term you would come across in boxing. I have a friend who is a boxer who...
AIMEE MANN
You pay to get radio play, pretty much, ... and you get what you pay for. It's not really a level pl...
AIMEE MANN
The guy's a Vietnam vet and a boxer, but he's also a drug addict, and she's trying to get away from ...
AIMEE MANN
Listen, I'm out of this system, man, I'm out... I'm doing better than ever. I couldn't be more happy...
AIMEE MANN
I feel really special, I do. No matter how temporary it may be. You're only as cool as your last coo...
AIMEE MANN
It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
BARRY MANN
You have to be very brave in that first writing session.
BARRY MANN