I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

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About Simone Weil

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Simone Adolphine Weil (; French: [simɔn adɔlfin vɛj]; 3 February 1909 – 24 August 1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist and labourer. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.

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Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.

Whether the mask is labeled Fascism, Democracy, or Dictatorship of the Proletariat, our great adversary remains the Apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier or the battle lines,… but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this Apparatus, and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

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If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, he will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non- payment of debts is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

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More quotations tagged with “harm”

Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm.

—William Shakespeare

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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.

—Groucho Marx

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Rules exist for a reason. Rules exist because when people don't follow them, people get hurt.

—Ally Carter in Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

—George Bernard Shaw

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