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Simone de Beauvoir on Society

1908–1986 France

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Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter in upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it.

The Coming of Age (1970)

Whatever the virtues of a civilization may be, it immediately belies them if it buys them by means of injustice and tyranny.

The idea that defines all humanism is that the world is not a given world, foreign to man, one to which he has to force himself to yield without. It is the world willed by man, insofar as his will expresses his genuine reality.

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