Simone Weil Quotes About Prestige

Quotes about: Prestige

• When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this vicious cycle. What is called national prestige consists in behaving always in such a way as to demoralize other nations by giving them the impression that, if it comes to war, one would certainly defeat them. What is called national security is an imaginary state of affairs in which one would retain the capacity to make war while depriving all other countries of it.

  Simone Weil

  Country, War, Giving

  "The Power of Words (1937)". "Selected Essays 1934-1943". Book y Simone Weil, translated by Richard Rees, p. 224, 1957.

• The full expression of personality depends upon its being inflated by social prestige; it is a social privilege.

  Simone Weil

  Expression, Personality, Privilege

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.74, Routledge

• The necessity for power is obvious, because life cannot be lived without order; but the allocation of power is arbitrary because all men are alike, or very nearly. Yet power must not seem to be arbitrarily allocated, because it will not then be recognized as power. Therefore prestige, which is illusion, is of the very essence of power.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Order, Essence

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.168, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• War is the supreme form of prestige.

  Simone Weil

  War, Prestige, Form

  Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.25, Routledge

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