Quotes by Weil, Simone

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. >>

In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree >>

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. >>

Quotations about Obedience

Obedience is a word and concept from which the valiant look for their >>

The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks. >>

Obedience is better than sacrifice. >>

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.

Weil, Simone