Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Oppression and Liberty (1958), p. 82
“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
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