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Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we are submerged against our will, and to our horror.
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The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.
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The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.
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Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. But above this level, far above, separated by an abyss, is the level where the highest things are achieved. These things are essentially anonymous.
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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
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The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through
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Most idealistic people are skint. I have discovered that people with money have no imagination, and people with imagination have no money.
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Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
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Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
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Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
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Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
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To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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