In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Quote by Simone Weil

Topics: Country Quotes, Democracy Quotes, Peace Quotes

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose...

Mathematics alone make us feel the limits of our intelligence. For we can always suppose...

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from...

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing...

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of...

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of...

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely,...

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely,...

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured...

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured...

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal...

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal...

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable...

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable...

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from...

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from...

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as...

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as...

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that...

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that...

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to...

More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to...

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no...

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no...

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like...

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like...

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its...

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its...

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of...

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of...

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which...

I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which...

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human...

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human...