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Social Quotes by Simone Weil
- 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…
- When we hit a nail with a hammer the whole of the shock received by the large head of the nail passes into a point…
- The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware,…
- In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.
- 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,…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of… — Roger Nash Baldwin
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood