Simone Weil Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

  Simone Weil

  Wisdom, Justice, Modern

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.31, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

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  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

• At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

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  Heart, Evil, Teeth

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.59, Routledge

• Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.

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  Punishment, Soul, Suffering

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.226, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

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  Time, Past, Crime

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.48, Routledge

• It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Essence, Vices

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.61, Routledge

• If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

  Simone Weil

  God, Forgiving, Crime

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