The whole of our civilization is founded on specialization, which implies the enslavement of those who execute to those who coordinate.
Simone WeilWhat a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.
Simone WeilJust as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.
Simone Weil