Quotes by Weil, Simone

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our life. >>

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things w >>

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy >>

Quotations about Oppression

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of th >>

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothin >>

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if yo >>

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Weil, Simone