What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live but things tha

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

Author: Simone Weil

Also found in:

Humility is attentive patience.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, even a duty.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.