Simone Weil Quotes About Oppression

Quotes about: Oppression

• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Crush, Sides, Oppression

  Simone Weil (1978). “Lectures on Philosophy”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

• What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

  Simone Weil

  Oppression, Appearance, Economics

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.59, Routledge

• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

• The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

  Simone Weil

  Giving, Evolution, Oppression

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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