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. Simone Weil on truth
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. Simone Weil on truth
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. Simone Weil on war
What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Simone Weil on war
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. Simone Weil on work
The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. Simone Weil on work