Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.
Simone WeilThe appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either
Simone WeilTo claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-โthat it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.
Simone Weil