Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, a…

Simone Weil
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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. ✨ Simone Weil (2005). War and the Iliad, New York Review of Books
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