#wit

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. ↗

— Simone Weil

#blame #encourage #fear #kill #killers

There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too. ↗

— Simone Weil

#endured #hatred #lying #pain #present

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded. ↗

— Simone Weil

#becoming #cannot #catholic #centuries #christian

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#band #bass #coming #energy #even

And when we used to play and fight in the streets in Brooklyn and I would get hurt or something, my mother would always come out and save me. So that sort of postponed the inevitable about getting a good beating, without having somebody to come and save you. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#always #beating #brooklyn #come #fight

Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#built #coalition #demonstrated #electronic #federal

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#head #his #man #shoulders #without

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't. ↗

— Bernice Weissbourd

#awareness #changed #children #every #families

I don't believe in the so-called Olympic spirit. I speak from personal experience. When China hosted the Games, it failed to include the people. The event was constructed without regard for their joy. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#china #constructed #event #experience #failed

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#course #had #i #keep #limits