"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."
― Simone Weil
Topic(s):
Power
More From Simone Weil
- "Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link."
- "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."
- "Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."
More In Power
- "I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I’ve done, is there’s only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads."― Lawrence Kasdan
- "I think that if your approach is one where you don’t want to alienate anybody, you’re going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you’re offering to such an extent that it doesn’t have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk."― Eddie Vedder
- "If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people."― Robert Caro