Quotes by Weil, Simone

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

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find rea >>

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither >>

Quotations about State

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the Stat >>

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals >>

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It >>

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

Weil, Simone