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

— Simone Weil

#does #give #inexorable #invincible #oppression

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

#else #genius #humility #nothing #real

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work. ↗

— Simone Weil

#contemporary #form #founded #greatness #lies

There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul. ↗

— Simone Weil

#baseness #because #degree #grandeur #laws

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves. ↗

— Simone Weil

#because #best #ends #great #lives

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

#anything #because #being #concluding #contrary

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#easy #everyone #internet #made #opinionated

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#guys #horrible #jail #some #were

As I've gotten older, I've found that I'm not afraid anymore to throw my influences into making a record. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#anymore #found #gotten #i #influences

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted. ↗