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Men Quotes by Simone Weil
- Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
- When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality, they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which…
- 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;…
- The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical…
- ...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…
- Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in…
- 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…
- A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not…
- 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…
- Man alone can enslave man.
- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
- As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving…
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is…
- Men owe us what they imagine they will give us. We must forgive them this debt.
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
- Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for…
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- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare