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Quote by Simone Weil
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. – Simone Weil

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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. – Simone Weil

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God
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. – Simone Weil

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The reason most people dont express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, Its what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them. – David Icke

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If you can once engage peoples pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. – Lord Chesterfield

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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. Well break out of it. It takes time. – Warren Buffett

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. – Ambrose Bierce

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Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Dont gag people with welfare, theyll never make an effort. – Source Unknown

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I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. – Sting

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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. Ones relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain. – Elizabeth Bowen

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