the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.
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 WeilEvery being cries out in silence to be read differently. Do not be indifferent to these cries.
Simone Weil