Draft for a Statement of Human Obligation

By Simone Weil

"...He holds every human being without any exception as something sacred to which he is bound to show respect. This is the only possible motive for universal respect towards all human beings....it is for the intelligence to conceive the idea of need and to discern, discriminate, and enumerate, with all the accuracy of which it is capable, the earthly needs of the soul and of the body… (read more)