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Own Quotes by Simone Weil
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should…
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
- The man who has known pure joy, if only for a moment ... is the only man for whom affliction is something devastating. At the…
- 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…
More Own Quotes
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates