Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone WeilIt is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
Simone WeilThose who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.
Simone WeilThe danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.
Simone Weil