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Simone Weil quotes about humanity

French Philosopher February 3, 1909 – August 24, 1943

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Simone Weil quote: "Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing...."
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such..."
Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling. Simone Weil
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. Simone Weil
Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in... Simone Weil
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. Simone Weil
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. Simone Weil
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. Simone Weil
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. Simone Weil
I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least..."
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human..."
Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being. Simone Weil
Simone Weil quote: "The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not..."
The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it. Simone Weil

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