Simone Weil Quotes

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943

Topics

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We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

Jessica Chastain

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I want to see creativity that breaks boundaries and isn't just about money.

Andreja Pejic

MoneyCreativityWantBoundariesSee

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

Anna Katharine Green

BeautyPathYouDutySpiritKissed

When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

John Ridley

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I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

Summer Phoenix

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Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.

Rudolph Valentino

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

Martin Scorsese

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When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

Michael Storm

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Fighting back against Iran is difficult and costly. No American president from Carter to Obama has been willing to take it on.

Michael Ledeen

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Every dictator is an enemy of freedom, an opponent of law.

Demosthenes

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Live Twitter can be built right into the main Twitter app, but it should certainly have its own tab so we can concentrate on the live experience free of distraction.

Chris Sacca

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I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.

Clayton M. Christensen

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