Simone Weil - Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have n

Power ... is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.

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Weil, Simone. Oppression and Liberty. Translated by Arthur Wills and John Petrie, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958, p. 67.

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