English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Milan Kundera Quotes

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off from the people. All the Communists who were hanged at the time by other Communists were awarded such abuse. Unlike those who had their feet solidly on the ground, they were said to float in the air. So it was fair, in a way, that as punishment the ground was permanently pulled out from under their feet, that they remained suspended a little above the floor.

Milan Kundera

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Jane Austen quote: "Arguments are too much like disputes."
Arguments are too much like disputes. Jane Austen
Hans Christian Andersen quote: "My life will be the best illustration of all my work."
My life will be the best illustration of all my work. Hans Christian Andersen
Solace is my favorite song. It was the last song we wrote for the record. It was right when we really started to mesh as far as music goes and we started really connecting with each other. Brandon Thomas
Jodi Picoult quote: "There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads..."
There is nothing worse than silence, strung like heavy beads on too delicate a conversation. Jodi Picoult
I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5-lb. perch in my lake. (Answering a reporter who asked him to name the best moment of his Presidency.) George W. Bush
Heidi Klum quote: "I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I..."
I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well. Heidi Klum
Virginia Woolf quote: "She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust."
She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. Virginia Woolf
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country. This is not so strange when you reflect that from the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture... W. Somerset Maugham
Douglas Adams quote: "Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the..."
Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever. Douglas Adams
Vincent Bugliosi quote: "There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex,..."
There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder. Vincent Bugliosi
Alyson Hannigan quote: "I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment."
I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment. Alyson Hannigan
Courtney Love quote: "My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but..."
My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes. Courtney Love
Gianni Versace quote: "My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very..."
My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily. Gianni Versace
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Vladimir Lenin
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians. Lynn Westmoreland