The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.
Simone WeilWhat a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone WeilWhat is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.
Simone WeilThe same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War II] who stood motionless, from one to eight in the morning, for the sake of having an egg, would have found it very difficult to do in order to save a human life.
Simone Weil