Simone Weil Needs Quotations

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

The world needs saints who have genius, just as a plague-stricken town needs doctors.

The need for truth is more sacred than any other need.

Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever.

Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.