Simone Weil's Quote - There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous t

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous t

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

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Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. – Simone Weil

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Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else. – Simone Weil

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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces. – Christopher Dawson

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Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. – Frederick Douglass

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