Jean Anouilh Quotes
Effective action is always unjust.
Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French Writer, Catch As Catch Can
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See François de La Rochefoucauld for a later version of this sentiment. Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault
The original was in Latin and is sometimes translated as "Let justice be done though the Heavens fall." The statement appears on several courthouses throughout the U. S.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
