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Full Idea
Our only duty with regard to the social is to try to limit the evil of it.
Gist of Idea
Our only social duty is to try to limit evil
Source
Simone Weil (Gravity and Grace (9 extracts) [1943], p.143)
Book Ref
Weil,Simone: 'An Anthology' [Penguin 1986], p.142
A Reaction
This is one of Weil's occasional remarks that have an anarchist flavour. I increasingly sympathise with this less idealistic view as I get older.