Quote by Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he doe

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 first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. – Simone Weil

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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. – Simone Weil

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil

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Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is – it is her shadow. – Ambrose Bierce

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Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm. – Louis Farrakhan

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