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“The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.”

Simone Weil · Intelligence

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Simone Weil

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

Equality

Simone Weil

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.

Fear

Simone Weil

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Imagination

Simone Weil

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

Power