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To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is eithe
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Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its inflic
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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
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We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
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It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.
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