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Simone Weil

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

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Simone Weil is saying that force harms both those who use it and those who suffer from it, but in different ways: it destroys its victims immediately while it makes its users feel drunk with power. She argues that this feeling of control is an illusion because true ownership of force is impossible.

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