JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
government political quality
The government of the United States, under Lyndon Johnson, proposes to concern itself over the quality of American life. And this is something very new in the political theory of free nations. The quality of life has heretofore depended on the quality of the human beings who gave tone to that life, and they were its priests and its poets, not its bureaucrats.
reality conservatism
Conservatism is the politics of reality
austen jane
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
religious catholic grew
I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.
self self-control pleasure
Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
gratitude neglected
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
bombs atoms glamour
Kennedy after all has lots of glamour - Gregory Peck with an atom bomb in his holster.
book philosophical talking
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books.
enemy melancholy industry
Industry is the enemy of melancholy
would-be prime ministers
If you had a European prime minister who experienced what we've experienced it would be expected that he would retire or resign,
government proportion can-do
Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.
running college years
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.
bombs rooms target
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
blessing boredom poison
Boredom is the deadliest poison.