The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.
Simone WeilOne must always be ready to change sides with justice, that fugitive from the winning camp.
Simone WeilIt is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
Simone WeilIt is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.
Simone Weil