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Force Quotes by Simone Weil
- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose in the case of an experiment that it is inexplicable…
- As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent…
- Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no…
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the…
- Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.
- Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom…
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
- Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.
- He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as…
- Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the…
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- We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence. — Paul Auster
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- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida