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 Weil
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. - Roy T. Bennett

  2. If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be... - C. Joybell C.

  3. Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. - Roy T. Bennett

  4. Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best? - Jacqueline Carey

  5. And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful. - Ruskin Bond

More Quotes By Simone Weil
  1. All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which...

  2. At the very best, a mind enclosed in language is in prison. It is limited to the number of relations which words can make simultaneously present to it; and remains in ignorance of thoughts which involve the combination of a greater number. These thoughts are...

  3. We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering, ” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

  4. There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

  5. We have to believe in a God who is like the true God in everything except that he does not exist, since we have not reached the point where God exists.

Related Topics