Quotes by Weil, Simone

I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its >>

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works ne >>

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and >>

Quotations about War

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on >>

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land >>

The savage in man is never quite eradicated. >>

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

Weil, Simone