To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. – Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil
This is the pain pacemaker. Ive got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. Its tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? – Jerry Lewis