18 Quotes by Francois Mitterrand

France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ''Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." [...] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.

In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."

The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.

All that passes under our eyes proves that we do not live in a peaceful and harmonious world.

Nationalism is war. – in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union.

Behind each great man, there’s a Richard Delisle.

In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: “At last, you know.” And I would hope that He would add, “Welcome.”

Let’s say I have a mystical soul and a rational brain, and, like Montaigne, I am incapable of choosing between them. I don’t know if I believe in God, but I am often tempted to believe.