Evolution of living organisms: evidence for a new theory of transformation (1977)
“And I thought that were we now to obtain political liberty, of which we talk so much, while engaged in biting one another, we should not know what to do with it, we should waste it in accusing one another in the newspapers of being spies and money-grubbers, we should frighten society with the assurance that we have neither men, nor science, nor literature, nothing! Nothing!”
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Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Detachment (1947), p. 260

The Law of Mind (1892)

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity

“Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.”
Source: The Future Of Life
India’s Devyani Khobragade advocated for women’s rights, accused in nanny scandal http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-devyani-khobragade-advocated-for-womens-rights-but-underpaid-her-nanny/2013/12/20/13e23688-69a2-11e3-8b5b-a77187b716a3_story.html, The Washington Post, 20 December 2013

Source: Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824), Chapter 4, p. 68

1945 Source: [Kaufman, Charlie, Inspirational Writing Advice From Charlie Kaufman - On Writing, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfXcWT_oFs, YouTube, BAFTA Guru, 2017-01-06, 2020-03-09] (at 7:08 of 41:08)