Commanded Detachment

Famous quotes containing the words commanded and/or detachment:

    But any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, or who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak -that prophet shall die.”
    Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 18:20.

    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 (1909–1943)