Simone Weil Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Men, Compassion

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.30, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence of risk is also a sickness of the soul.

  Simone Weil

  Evil, Boredom, Soul

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Violence, Eternity

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.134, U of Nebraska Press

• Time does us violence; it is the only violence.

  Simone Weil

  Doe, Violence

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.82, Psychology Press

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