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People 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…
- In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social…
- 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…
- Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.
- The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood…
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
- 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,…
- 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…
- How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
- Our patriotism comes straight from the Romans. This is why French children are encouraged to seek inspiration for it in Corneille. It is a pagan…
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- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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