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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)

The great error of nearly all studies of war... has been to consider war as an episode in foreign policies, when it is an act of interior politics.

Simone Weil
Peace, War, Errors

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

Simone Weil
Peace, Giving, Doe

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

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

Simone Weil
Peace, Freedom, 4th Of July
Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.11, Routledge

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

Simone Weil
Peace, War, Struggle

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

Simone Weil
Peace, War, Wheat

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