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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind

Book by Simone Weil · 4 quotes · Humans, Rights, Clear

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“Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures.”