What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. – Simone Weil
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty. – Simone Weil
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil
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