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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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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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The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil

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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. – Simone Weil

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I decided to make Captain America because I realized I wasnt doing the film because it terrified me. You cant make decisions based on fear. – Chris Evans

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The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what Ive written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. – Joyce Maynard

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True nobility is exempt from fear. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The only men who arent in fear of womens reactions are usually men who arent born or who are dead. – Warren Farrell

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Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana

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The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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