Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Adolf Hitler

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

Duke of Wellington

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

Confucius

To know what is the right thing to do and not do it is the greatest cowardice.

Cervantes Saavedra

True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.

Epictetus

Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Ernest Hemingway

All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Mohandas Gandhi

Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

Johnson

In the bottle, discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

Terry Jones

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.

Georgia Witkin

To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday.

Thomas Hardy

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Thomas Buxton

One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel

Felix Frankfurter

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling

Bruce Lahn

If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.

Alan Furst

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

Malala Yousafzai

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

Jennifer Campbell

The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.