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23813 | Only people who understand force, and don't respect it, are capable of justice [Weil] |
Full Idea: Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice. | |
From: Simone Weil (The Iliad or the Poem of Force [1940], p.212) | |
A reaction: There are, of course, occasions when we are grateful to people who exercise appropriate force on our behalf. I think she was concerned with what is inappropriate. |