Weil

Famous quotes containing the word weil:

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

“Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”
—Simone Weil (1910–1943)