Simone Weil Quotes
Man alone can enslave man.
Weil, Simone. Oppression and Liberty. Translated by Arthur Wills and John Petrie, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958, p. 61.
Describing the proposed U. S. Constitution:
Napoleon had been a great supporter of Napoleon, but had become disillusioned.
As a result of the programs and philosophy he expounded, Leontiev joyously predicted:
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
The British saw the American colonies and the East Coast Canadian provinces all as their North American possessions. With the growing dissatisfaction of the New England and other Colonies, the British wanted to secure Quebec as a safe base where there were few rebels. Fox, of the opposition, criticized the heavy-handed control of Quebec wanting to give the rights of Englishmen under the English Constitution to all citizens of the North American colonies. Had Britain done so, there may never have been an American Revolution.
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist. The mathematician André Weil was her brother.
