Simone Weil Quotes about Power

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Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

Simone Weil

Power, Ends, Understood

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.146, Psychology Press

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

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

Simone Weil

Humility, Power, Order

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.128, Psychology Press

the instruments of power - arms, gold, machines, magical or technical secrets - always exist independently of him who disposes of them, and can be taken up by others. Consequently all power is unstable.

Simone Weil

Taken, Power, Secret

Simone Weil (2001). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.64, Psychology Press