Weil

Famous quotes containing the word weil:

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)