French - Philosopher | February 3, 1909 - August 24, 1943
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
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Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.
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One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.
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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
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The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
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When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
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Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
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