Quotes by Weil, Simone

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is t >>

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in >>

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin >>

Quotations about Despotism

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, alway >>

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probab >>

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are t >>

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

Weil, Simone