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Needs Quotes by Simone Weil
- Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The…
- Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
- The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is…
- 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…
- The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.
- The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality,…
- 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…
- Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.
- Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.
- To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials,…
- Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs…
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