Simone Weil Quotes About Peace

Quotes about: Peace

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

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.11, Routledge

• 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 more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Peace, War

  "The Power of Words" (1937)

• The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Errors

• Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Struggle

• Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, War, Wheat

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

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

• What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

  Simone Weil

  Country, Peace, War

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