"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."
― Simone Weil
Topic(s): Men
More From Simone Weil
- "The only way into truth is through one’s own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation."
- "To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves."
- "In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention."
More In Men
- "Time takes away the grief of men."― Desiderius Erasmus
- "Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."― Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road."― Benjamin F. Wade