Quotes by Weil, Simone

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when >>

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the E >>

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in >>

Quotations about Oppression

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. >>

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the bre >>

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance pr >>

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Weil, Simone