What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you say to someone who has ears to hear: "What you are doing to me is not just," you may touch… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
War, which perpetuates itself under the form of preparation for war, has once and for all given the State an important role… — 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
