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Who Quotes by Simone Weil
- Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
- For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no…
- Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
- Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no…
- Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless…
- The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today,…
- We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness…
- Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the…
- Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers.
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello