Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.
Simone WeilHow many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
Simone WeilIn struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
Simone WeilThe afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.
Simone Weil