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Quote by Georges Bernanos
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not re

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. – Georges Bernanos

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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. – Georges Bernanos

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Peace
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Who are you to condemn anothers sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it. – Georges Bernanos

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Sin
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. – Georges Bernanos

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Masses
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Other Quotes from
Rights
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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individuals private rights. – William Blackstone

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Rights

There are those who say to you — we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. – Hubert Humphrey

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Rights

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth. – Dick Gregory

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Rights

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation. – Giuseppe Mazzini

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Rights

Random Quotes

There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration. – Walter Russell

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Meditation

Competing in sports has taught me that if Im not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. – Ron Blomberg

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Sports

Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right – instantly. – Sam Slick (Thomas Chandler Haliburton)

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Crying

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. – James Thurber

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Hate