78 Quotes by Theodore Zeldin

It's easy to say, 'I'm anti-capitalist,' or, 'I'm anti-Western decadence,' without having to be challenged about what that actually means, or how you might go about reshaping society to make it better.

You cannot measure the minute nuance that makes the difference between being happy and unhappy at work.

The main purpose of engaging in conversation can no longer be personal advancement or respectability. Instead, I'd like for us to use conversations to create equality, to open ourselves to strangers, and, most practically, to remake our working world.

However fascinating you may think you are, there is a limit to what you can know about yourself.

Gastronomy has done more to bring together people of the world than any guns ever could.

France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.