Simone Weil's Quote - To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone

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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

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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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The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. – Simone Weil

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. – Simone Weil

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. – Andrew Carnegie

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. – John Stuart Mill

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Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country. – Vladimir Lenin

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Concentration of executive power, unless its very temporary and for specific circumstances, lets say fighting world war two, its an assault on democracy. – Noam Chomsky

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