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State 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...
- When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- 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 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…
- It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
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- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. — Michelle Bachelet
- I do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the… — Michele Bachmann
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas