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  • It is not enough that France should be regarded as a country which enjoys the remains of a freedom acquired long ago. If she is still to count in the world--and if she does not intend to, she may as well perish--she must be seen by her own citizens and by all men as an ever-flowing source of liberty. There must not be a single genuine lover of freedom in the whole world who can have a valid reason for hating France.

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    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.194, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

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

  • Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

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    Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.53, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  • ...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

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    Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.79, Routledge

  • Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

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    "The Needs of the Soul (1949)". "The Need for Roots". Book by Simone Weil, p. 97, 1949.
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Simone Weil

  • Born: February 3, 1909
  • Died: August 24, 1943
  • Occupation: Philosopher
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