Simone Weil Quotes about Justice

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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

Simone Weil

Wisdom, Justice, Modern

Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.

Simone Weil

Thinking, Justice, Different

Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.188, U of Nebraska Press