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Power Quotes by Simone Weil
- Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience;…
- Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
- In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
- Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
- There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,…
- Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility…
- To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
- 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…
- Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
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