Aug
19
“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.”
Simone Weil, “The Iliad” or “The Poem of Force” (1940), quoted in Chris Hedges, War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (New York: Anchor Books, 2002), 21.
