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Candide Quotes

“We live in the best of all possible worlds”

Source: Discourse on Metaphysics and the Monadology

“Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.”

Littles Humor Can Do Impossible Revolution Weapons Irony Revolutionary Rebellious Candide

Author:Lionel Trilling

“I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains.”

Knows Moving Mountain Drs Move Mountains Candide

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.”

“The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.”

Political Literature Stuff Cutting Written Modern Talent Dangerous Bones Indian Satire Heroic Great Work Timidity Saga Recoil Political Satire Candide

Author:David Selbourne