Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Source: In Selected Essays, ed. by Richard Rees, 1962.
-- Simone Weil, (Feb 3 1909-1943), French philosopher, activist; She was a mystic and activist in the French Resistance during WW II; wrote Gravity and Grace.