Jean-Francois Lyotard quote: "Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts."

The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be val...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modern...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD

Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a wes...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD

Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, an...
JEAN FRANCOIS LYOTARD

Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of co...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the functi...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

What is required of a working hypothesis is a fine capacity for discrimination.
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modern...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer th...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day,...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machine...
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD

...The sublime feeling is not mere pleasure as taste is – it is a mixture of pleasure and pain... ...
JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD

…is postmodernity the pastime of an old man who scrounges in the garbage-heap of finality looking ...
JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.
JEAN-FRANçOIS LYOTARD

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD

We love without reason, and without reason we hate. [Fr., On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on...
JEAN FRANCOIS REGNARD

We love without reason, and without reason we hate.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD

There has been a banking crisis, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, a social crisis, a geostrat...
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE

Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]
JEAN FRANCOIS MARMONTEL

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have Frenc...
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE

Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and con...
JEAN FRANCOIS REVEL

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me. [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma...
JEAN FRANCOIS DUCIS

I have a thought for Nicolas Sarkozy, you know my loyalty on his account, but I profess it too for J...
JEAN-FRANCOIS COPE

To know how to dispense with things is to possess them.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD

Love without reason lasts the longest.
JEAN-FRANCOIS REGNARD

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well. -Francois.
FRANCOIS

We never forgive those who make us blush.
JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE

We always weaken whatever we exaggerate. [Fr., On affaiblit toujours tout ce qu'on exagere.]
JEAN FRANCOIS DE LA HARPE

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
CARDINAL JEAN FRANCOIS DE RETZ

True icons are larger than life, unforgettable with an elegance that's mesmerizingly timeless.
FRANCOIS NARS

We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all 'rose.'
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold.
FRANCOIS NARS

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote put...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Being in the European Union has its advantages, and I think that is what the British are beginning t...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Whoever pays should control; whoever pays should sanction. I agree. But budgetary union should be co...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

From the start, I used a different kind of girl in Nars campaign images. My choice to use models of ...
FRANCOIS NARS

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

I never thought make-up was like brain surgery.
FRANCOIS NARS

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.
FRANCOIS FENELON

Little opportunities should be improved.
FRANCOIS FENELON

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
FRANCOIS FENELON

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts...
FRANCOIS FENELON

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very w...
FRANCOIS FENELON

Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

He 63 ways of getting money, the most common, most honorable ones being staling, thieving, and robbi...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those ...
FRANCOIS FENELON

There are more old drunkards than old physicians.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FENELON

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Bec...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
FRANCOIS MURIAC

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought and then give it form.
FRANCOIS DELSARTE

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
FRANCOIS FENELON

The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.
FRANCOIS DELSARTE

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thor...
FRANCOIS FENELON

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exc...
FRANCOIS FENELON

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
FRANCOIS FéNELON

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

"Appetite comes with eating," says Angeston, "but thirst departs with drinking." [Fr., "L'appetit...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

A crier of green sauce.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Petite ville, grand renom. Small town, great renown.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe me that it is a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen. [Fr., Folie est mettre la charrue devant les b...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Panurge had a flea in his ear. [Fr., Panurge auoyt la pulee en l' oreille.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozill...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

You are Christians of the best edition, all picked and culled.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

You shall never want rope enough.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Make three bites of a cherry.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Performed to a T.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

How well I feathered by nest.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Hungry bellies have no cars. [Fr., La ventre affame n'point d'oreilles.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

He did not care a button for it.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said E...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mo...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Between two stools one sits on the ground. [Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Debts and lies are generally mixed together
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are skinned. [Fr., Vous semblez les anguil...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. ...
FRANCOIS LELORD

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I woul...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Our only goal is to strengthen the opposition and to avoid the dilemma whereby we only have the choi...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

In a lot of cases, makeup is a fantastic help, and that's why women love makeup in general. It&#...
FRANCOIS NARS

Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory.
FRANCOIS NARS

Makeup is very important for a show. It's really an accessory on the runway. You have to be sure...
FRANCOIS NARS

Makeup is an accessory to fashion. You buy a bag, you buy shoes, you put on eyeliner, you buy a lips...
FRANCOIS NARS

Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.
FRANCOIS NARS

When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more ...
FRANCOIS FENELON

My adversary is the world of finance.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we h...
FRANCOIS NARS

It's very refreshing to go away and take a break, to clear your head, and just get into somethin...
FRANCOIS NARS

Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes ...
FRANCOIS NARS

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics ...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make p...
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
FRANCOIS FENELON

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom s...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Even with - the best make-up in the world won't look good if you don't cleanse and exfoliate...
FRANCOIS NARS

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD

I'll keep creating modern, deep, rich and adventurous colors and products that inspire creative ...
FRANCOIS NARS

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical nov...
FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

Austerity need not be Europe's fate.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

ISIL struck France because it is 'free' and 'the nation of human rights'. This is no...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having o...
FRANCOIS FENELON

I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forge...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Everyone says Francois Mitterrand had huge charisma. But before he was president they used to call h...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Not in the constitution, but I would propose a law to the French parliament that provides for reduci...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against t...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benev...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common...
FRANCOIS PINAULT

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.
FRANCOIS GAUTIER

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate...
FRANCOIS FENELON

Whatever happened during the French presidential campaign will leave no hard feelings. I perfectly u...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shou...
FRANCOIS HOUGAARD

I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - bo...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good ...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Love truth, but pardon error.
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE

'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral f...
FRANCOIS VOLTAIRE

Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very w...
FRANCOIS FéNELON

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
FRANCOIS CAVANNA

I really wanted to have a different approach of beauty because when I came to America, they were sti...
FRANCOIS NARS

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings wh...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedie...
FRANCOIS FENELON

I like beauty to be a bit edgy, not typical. For me, the only rule is looking good.
FRANCOIS NARS

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can suc...
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND

I know all except myself.
FRANCOIS VILLON

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must be...
FRANCOIS FENELON

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

But where are the snows of yester year? [Fr., Mais ou sont les neiges d'antan?]
FRANCOIS VILLON

No clock is more regular than the belly
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

The extremists wanted to divide France; it came together.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhanc...
FRANCOIS NARS

Islamist terrorism has declared war against us, against France, Europe, the entire world.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to anno...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it&...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal ...
FRANCOIS LELORD

Frugality is for the vulgar.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Protocol is everything.
FRANCOIS GIULIANI

My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve...
FRANCOIS NARS

Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid...
FRANCOIS NARS

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't the...
FRANCOIS PINAULT

But where are the snows of yesteryear?
FRANCOIS VILLON

Ah God! Had I but studied in the days of my foolish youth
FRANCOIS VILLON

My days are gone a-wandering.
FRANCOIS VILLON

Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.
FRANCOIS VILLON

We were two and had but one heart between us
FRANCOIS VILLON

I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

In this world, you do your job, a good job, and that's what counts.
FRANCOIS NARS

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS

We need intelligence services to fight against terrorism, but they have to respect the principles of...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringi...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, P...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of ...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I can understand countries don't want to join the euro, but they cannot impede the consolidation...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put ...
FRANCOIS JACOB

Before you, I engage myself to serve my country with the devotion and the exemplary that this post d...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the worl...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe&...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

Everything has to go well for him in a race now, so we'll have to see about the future. It's too soo...
FRANCOIS DOUMEN

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
FRANCOIS MITTERRAND

If Europe does not advance, it will fall or even be wiped out from the world map... My duty is to br...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

I think less is more when it comes to make-up; this really helps achieve a lighter complexion. Heavy...
FRANCOIS NARS

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.
FRANCOIS JACOB

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Mic...
FRANCOIS ENGLERT

The migrant question is directly linked to the crisis in Syria and Iraq.
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE

In America, when I first came here, they were used to wearing more make-up - thicker foundation, mor...
FRANCOIS NARS

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only se...
FRANCOIS SAGON

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you t...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear. All is grace. If the Eternal ...
FRANCOIS MAURIAC

Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts.

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Liberalism does not preclude an organisation of the flow of money in which some channels are used in decision making while others are only good for the payment of debts.

Jean-Francois Lyotard

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