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Modern 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...
- 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…
- There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
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- Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather… — Carl Sagan
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