Almanac: Simone Weil on power by Terry Teachout

"Might is that which makes a thing of anybody who comes under its sway. When exercised to the full, it makes a thing of man in the most literal sense, for it makes him a corpse." Simone Weil, "The Iliad or The Poem of Force" (trans. Mary McCarthy)

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