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

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

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power
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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. – Simone Weil

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Art
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What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil

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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power. – A. J. P. Taylor

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The measure of a man is what he does with power. – Plato

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power

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. – George Orwell

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power

Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if Im the only person who cant understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when theyre not that great. These are questions everyone has. – Chris Martin

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power

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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever. – Billy Jean King

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People count the faults of those who keep them waiting. – Proverb

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. – Samuel Smiles

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