Author: Stephane Hessel

Quotes

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

- Stephane Hessel

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.

- Stephane Hessel

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law.

- Stephane Hessel

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

History can bring luck: this is what we can call optimism.

- Stephane Hessel

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