Quote by Simone Weil
To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. - Simone

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil

Other quotes by Simone Weil

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil

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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. – Simone Weil

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The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could. – Proverb

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. – William Wordsworth

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In the sense that youre not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesnt isnt unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts. – Peter Singer

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. – Milan Kundera

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