Simone Weil

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.