“One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.” — simone weil Copy Share Image
The supernatural virtue of justice consists of behaving exactly as though there were equality when one is the stronger in an unequal… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Piety in regard to the dead: to do everything for what does not exist.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
