Léon Blum quotes

Léon Blum was a French politician and statesman, recognized as a leader of the French Socialist movement. As Prime Minister, he led the Popular Front government and implemented significant social reforms. He became a symbol of progressive politics and resistance against fascism in France. Here are 4 of his quotes:

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

Léon Blum

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Léon Blum

Although I am not a legalist when it comes to the conquest of power, I am one when it comes to the exercise of power. If parliamentary processes result in our being called upon to exercise power within the framework of existing institutions, we should do so legally and fairly without taking advantage of our presence in government to fraudulently transform the exercise of power into the conquest of power.

Léon Blum