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The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

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

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

Simone Weil
Prayer, Father, Humanity
"The Simone Weil Reader".

Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.

Simone Weil
Taken, Humanity, Individual
Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.154, Psychology Press

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