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Simone Weil : There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Marcus Junius Brutus : " Loyalty, in the heart and understanding of an englishman, is a rational attachment to the guardian of the laws. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Samuel Butler : " Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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George Santayana : " Oaths are the fossils of piety. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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William Shakespeare : " It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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William Shakespeare : " A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha? " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Euripides : " 'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Omar Khayyám : " Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore — but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Phillips Brooks : " No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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King Jr. Martin Luther : " Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Edmund Burke : " Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and the invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those, who by an obligation above them, and infinitely superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity paramount to deliberation, that admits no discussion, and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy. This necessity is no exception to the rule; because this necessity itself is a part too of that moral and physical disposition of things, to which man must be obedient by consent or force: but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the law is broken, nature is disobeyed, and the rebellious are outlawed, cast forth, and exiled, from this world of reason, and order, and peace, and virtue, and fruitful penitence, into the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow. " # Obedience # Loyalty # Law and Lawyers

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Simone Weil: " Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life." # Imagination # Fiction # Life and Living

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Simone Weil: " The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through" # Love

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Simone Weil: " Beauty always promises, but never gives anything." # Beauty

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Simone Weil: " Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty." # Evil # Duty # Necessity

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Simone Weil: " All sins are attempts to fill voids." # Sin

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Simone Weil: " Wrongly or rightly you think that I have a right to the name of Christian. I assure you that when in speaking of my childhood and youth I use the words vocation, obedience, spirit of poverty, purity, acceptance, love of one's neighbor, and other expressions of the same kind, I am giving them the exact signification they have for me now. Yet I was brought up by my parents and my brother in a complete agnosticism, and I never made the slightest effort to depart from it; I never had the slightest desire to do so, quite rightly, I think. In spite of that, ever since my birth, so to speak, not one of my faults, not one of my imperfections really had the excuse of ignorance. I shall have to answer for everything on that day when the Lamb shall come in anger. You can take my word for it too that Greece, Egypt, ancient India, and ancient China, the beauty of the world, the pure and authentic reflections of this beauty in art and science, what I have seen of the inner recesses of human hearts where religious belief is unknown, all these things have done as much as the visibly Christian ones to deliver me into Christ's hands as his captive. I think I might even say more. The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing." # Ignorance # Love # Christians and Christianity

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Simone Weil: " The future is made of the same stuff as the present." # The future # Freedom # Power

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Simone Weil: " In trying to understand her, we must not be distracted ... by considering how far, and at what points we agree or disagree. ... I cannot conceive of anybody's agreeing with all of her views, or of not disagreeing violently with some of them. But agreement and rejection are secondary: what matters is to make contact with a great soul." # Agreement # Books - Reading # Friends and Friendship

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Simone Weil: " To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself." # Heroes and Heroism

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Simone Weil: " The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes." # Past

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