Paul Valery Quotes
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
Valéry, Paul. Regards sur le monde actuel. Stock, 1931.
She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
At the time, there were no major issues In contention for the nation, and bipartisanship became quite easy. That would change markedly in the following decades when the new questions came forward from reformers like Theodore Roosevelt and muckraking journalists. The new questions had to do with monopolies, trusts, corporate power, regulation, corruption and political machines.
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 12 different years.
