#co

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemplation #degraded #faith #into #made

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles. ↗

— Simone Weil

#blame #encourage #fear #kill #killers

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ↗

— Simone Weil

#being #chance #coming #eternal #him

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

#door #except #impossible #know #lie

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

— Simone Weil

#conflict #international #likely #more #petroleum

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy. ↗

— Simone Weil

#commit #crucifixion #envy #every #every time

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

#defined #door #every #kind #morality

Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. ↗

— Simone Weil

#compassion #difficult #him #just #know

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 #help #interests #live #make

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ↗

— Simone Weil

#beings #degree #due #effectively #equal