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It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

Simone Weil

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
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Choice Light Oneself Plant
Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.
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Believe History Murder Word
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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Citizenship Country Economics International Peace War
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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Myself One Liner Patriot
Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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Cry Different Reading Silence
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Crime Justice Modern Name Wisdom
Love: To feel with one’s whole self the existence of another being.
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Existence Feeling Love
An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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Aspect Atheist Concentration Love
Modern life is given over to immoderation. Immoderation invades everything: actions and thought, public and private life.
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Action Life Modern Private Public Thinking
The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.
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Greatness Lying Religion Seek Suffering
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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Equality God Gratitude Inspirational Love Purity Suffering
Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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Empty Fly Sin
To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Forever Language Prayer Religion Yourself

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