Simone Weil Quotes
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
Citations
Weil, Simone. The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Toward Mankind. Translated by Arthur F. Wills, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1952, p. 15.
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Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.