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Quotes from The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind — Simone Weil

1909–1943 France

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The intelligence is defeated as soon as the expression of one's thoughts is preceded, explicitly or implicitly, by the little word 'we'. And when the light of the intelligence grows dim, it is not very long before the love of good becomes lost.

The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind (1949)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Simone Weil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.