Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. – Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. – Simone Weil
What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. – Simone Weil