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is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims... the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims... the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

is capable even of killing ideas and contrary to popular belief, killing them easily and once ideas are dead they are no more than corpses.

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas' Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. Simone Weil

is equally the soliciting force for the other, which only thereby becomes itself a soliciting force.

(Force is equally the soliciting Force for that other, which only thereby becomes itself a soliciting Force. (

is, in its grossest and most summary form, the force that kills. How much more varied in its processes, is the other force, the force that does not kill, i.e., that does not kill just yet. It will surely kill, it will possibly kill, or perhaps it merely hangs, poised and ready, over the head of the creature it can kill, at any moment, which is to say at every moment.

Here we see force in its grossest and most summary form the force that kills. How much more varied in its processes, how much more surprising in its effects is the other force, the force that does not kill, i.e., that does not kill just yet. It will surely kill, it will possibly kill, or perhaps it merely hangs, poised and ready, over the head of the creature it can kill, at any moment, which is to say at every moment. (weil 'the iliad' : 6)

is, in whatever aspect, its effect is the same: It turns man into a stone.

In whatever aspect, its effect is the same: it turns a man into a stone. From its first property (the ability to turn a human being into a thing by the simple method of killing him) flows another, quite prodigious too in its own way, the ability to turn a human being into a thing while he is still alive. He is alive... he has a soul, and yethe is a thing. An extraordinary entity this a thing that has a soul. (simone weil 'illiad' : 6)

 deprives men of liberty and obedience... for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected.

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience... for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold.

is that through which whatever needs to be maintained is doomed.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Henry Miller

Justice without force is powerless... force without justice is tyrannical. Blaise Pascal

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