Placenta/development

Famous quotes containing the words placenta and/or development:

“The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)