A quotation by Weil, Simone

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

Simone Weil (1909-1943) French philosopher

Notebooks [Cahiers] [tr. Wills (1956)]

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More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/weil-simone/48489/