Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.
Simone WeilMoney 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 Weil