Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
Simone Weil
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Simone Weil
Age: 34 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 3
Died: 1943
Died: August 24
Autobiographer
Diarist
French Resistance Fighter
Philosopher
Poet
Teacher
Trade Unionist
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Simone Adolphine Weil
Fear
Killers
Without
Encourage
Men
Encouragement
Punishment
Blame
Soon
Kill
Approving
Least
Smiles
More quotes by Simone Weil
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself - only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.
Simone Weil
The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve.
Simone Weil
Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.
Simone Weil
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
Simone Weil
If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.
Simone Weil
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.
Simone Weil
There is no greater joy for me than looking at the sky on a clear night with an attention so concentrated that all my other thoughts disappear then one can think that the stars enter into one's soul.
Simone Weil
Algebra and money are essentially levelers the first intellectually, the second effectively.
Simone Weil
We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.
Simone Weil
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone Weil
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality.
Simone Weil
We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.
Simone Weil
One does not play Bach without having done scales. But neither does one play a scale merely for the sake of the scale.
Simone Weil
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.
Simone Weil
We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.
Simone Weil
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
Simone Weil
Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
Simone Weil
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weil
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil
