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Been Quotes by Simone Weil
- The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act…
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of…
- Because no other could do it, he himself went to the greatest possible distance, the infinite distance. This infinite distance between God and God, this…
- To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at…
- When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
- When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,…
- It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is…
- How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
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