Simone Weil's Quote - A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, exc

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, exc

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil

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The role of the intelligence – that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. – Simone Weil

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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? – Norman Cousins

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You dont attack the grunts of Vietnam you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. Its the same thing with psychotherapy. – James Hillman

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This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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