Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it or thinks he does as it is to its victims, the sec Simone Weil Quotes
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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims, the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is nobody really possesses it.

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