Simone Weil Quotes about Country

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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

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)

A man thinks he is dying for his country," said Anatole France, "but he is dying for a few industrialists." But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.

Simone Weil

Country, Thinking, Men

Simone Weil (1962). “Selected Essays: 1934-1943”, London, Oxford U.P

When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

Simone Weil

Country, War, Giving

"The Power of Words (1937)". "Selected Essays 1934-1943". Book y Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees, p. 224, 1957.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

Country, Suffering, Humiliation

Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Simone Weil

Country, Power, Men

The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.

Simone Weil

Love, Country, Children

Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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

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.

Simone Weil

Country, Hate, Men

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