Quotes by Weil, Simone

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but peop >>

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to hav >>

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God. >>

Quotations about Power

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. >>

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious >>

Power in America today is control of the means of communication. >>

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 opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Weil, Simone