Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
SIMONE WEILIt is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
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To be always relevant, you have to say things which are eternal.
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Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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Every being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
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I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.
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Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Joy is being fully aware of reality.
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Patriotism is idolatry of the self.
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I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
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