Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
Simone WeilModern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.
Simone WeilIt is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified.
Simone Weil