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

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots...

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots...

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...

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the...

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that...

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that...

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say,...

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say,...

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if...

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if...

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It...

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It...

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be...

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be...

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on...

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on...

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in...

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in...

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame,...

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame,...

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the...

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the...

Humility is attentive patience.

Humility is attentive patience.

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...

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends...

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends...