Simone Weil - The Need for Roots (1949)

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.
Simone Weil
Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors.
Simone Weil
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil
All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil - Gravity and Grace, 1947
Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

- Simone Weil - The Need for Roots (1949)