God Quote by Georges Bernanos

“I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.”

Georges Bernanos

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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn…

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