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This work relates compassion and submission as the new standard of domination and power in our Century. To share this position paper we use the work of Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil, in order to extend a dialogue to each other. Compassion and submissionare ingredients to make revolutions possible, along Arendt; Weil, on the other hand, expresses her love andcatches against every weakness that can make stop the fight, whatever it be. We try to show the economical boundaries of compassion. They had to be two women, with different and seminal considerations on feminism thatcould help to attack the reality of compassion and submission.