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May Quotes by Simone Weil
- ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking…
- A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the interference of extraneous…
- An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
- A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
- If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch and awaken at…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt