Simone Weil

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like…

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and…

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of…

We can only know one thing about God – that he is what we are not…

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as…

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to…

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely…

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The…

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that…

The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves…

Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being…

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a…

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live…

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless…

Humility is attentive patience…