Logo
Quote by Simone Weil
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men

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. – Simone Weil

Other quotes by Simone Weil

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God. – Simone Weil

Category:
Faith
Author
Simone Weil
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
State
category

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the States ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners. – Jean Dubuffet

Category:
State

The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
State

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
State

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. Its become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. – E. L. Doctorow

Category:
State

Random Quotes

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

Category:
Books

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, Its easier to change directions while youre still moving. If you stop, its harder to get started again. I still dont think I made the wrong decision, but he was right. – Debra Winger

Category:
Change

We have a long way to go before we are able to hear the voices of everyone on earth, but I believe that providing voices and building bridges is essential for the World Peace we all wish for. – Joichi Ito

Category:
Peace

I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos, and no white man, no matter how intelligent he may be, can ever understand Louis Armstrong and the music of the Congo. – Frantz Fanon

Category:
Racism