Paul Claudel Quotes
How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority.
Paul Claudel, 1868-1955, French Diplomat & Poet, The New Dictionary of American Thoughts, 1957
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Alexie, an American Indian, studied wrote about the phenomenon whereby the Indians who were brutalized and attacked by whites with modern weapons and other technological advantages, in the process of defending themselves and their way of life became oppressors to whites in many situations where they could dominate a local scene. Likewise, the Israelis, who were totally oppressed in the Middle East for years and dominated by the more numerous Arabs with over a dozen established national armies attacking the Jewish civilian population when Israel first became a state. However the Jews survived and each time the Arabs attacked and further oppressed the Israelis, the Jews became stronger until at some point the became oppressors of many of the Arabs. The oppressors became the oppressed and vica versa.
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
“Factions” was the word for political parties then.
This claim has very often been true especially in South and Latin America, but in the United States generally it has been a delusion that the populists are in the majority although the general have been neglected and as a result they defy a powerful majority. Good examples of this are the Southern populist movements after the Civil War, the Populist Party, and the Populism of the second decade of the 21st century.
Paul Claudel was a French poet, dramatist and diplomat, and the younger brother of the sculptor Camille Claudel. He was most famous for his verse dramas, which often convey his devout Catholicism. Claudel was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in six different years.
