Simone Weil Quotes About Power
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Purity is the power to contemplate defilement.
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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
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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.
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Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.
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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.
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