Weil

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“Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)