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Against Quotes by Simone Weil
- Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms...
- The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode…
- Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;…
- A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not…
- In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
- I think that it is useless to fight directly against natural weaknesses. One has to force oneself to act as though one did not have…
- Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the…
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