Quotes by : Simone Weil

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle....

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large....

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

The notion of obligations comes before that of rights, which is subordinate and relative to the former.....

One must always be prepared to switch sides with justice, that fugitive of the winning camp.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which....

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary....

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,”....