Drafting Room 5

Social force is bound to be accompanied by lies. That is why all that is highest in human life, every effort of thought, every effort love, has a corrosive action on the established order. Thought can just as readily, and on good grounds, be stigmatized as revolutionary on the one side, as counter revolutionary on the other. In so far as it is ceaselessly creating a scale of values that 'is not of this world' , it is the enemy of forces which control society. Simone Weil in 'Oppression and Liberty.