Social order Quote by Simone Weil Download Open image ““The social order, though necessary, is essentially evil, whatever it may be.”” — Simone Weil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Social order
“Government at its best is a necessary evil; at its worst, an intolerable one.” — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“First, you never admit that the order is imagined. You always insist that the order sustaining society is an objective reality” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Power is neither good nor evil. It just is. It's what people do with power that matters.” — C.J. Redwine Copy Share Image
“There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to weak it.” — Lord Voldemort Copy Share Image
“There is evil in the best of us, of course; but perhaps just a little bit more in the worst of us.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
When women gain access to higher education and then suddenly start doing better at it than the men, that can really throw the prevailing… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
“In Shivaite tradition, the god's companions are described as a troupe of freakish, adventurous, delinquent and wild young people, who prowl in the night,… — Alain Daniélou Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
In the event of a Mad Max-style post-apocalyptic dystopia, people with supplies of food and water could become warlords or chieftains in the social… — Nish Kumar Copy Share Image
“The main focus of Burroughs' Wild Boys tetralogy is an apocalyptic world in which the social order is disrupted enough to allow gay men… — Jamie Russell Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the race problem early thrust upon me and enveloping me, I should have probably been an unquestioning worshipper at… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The teaching of their ancient belief is filled with truth for the present day. Its profound sense of justice, nation to nation, man to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
