Quotes About Weakening

The Pope's critics among his fellow prelates have engaged in entry, rumormongering, leaks, and open defiance — a desperate rearguard effort aimed at weakening a Pope deemed insufficiently committed to the protection of clerical power.

Rather than lead people to a "liberated happiness," these laws are destined to lead people to a pitiful darkening of the mind, a weakening of the will, and slavery to sin.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Power wears out those who don't have it

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

One of the things I do in banking committees is put pressure on them, and one of the other things I do is through my website, through outside pressure, and I ask people to come and help us join that fight where we can get people outside to keep putting the pressure on the Senate to make sure there are no compromises and weakening of Dodd-Frank.

So far we have seen the weakening and collapse of small and medium-sized states in Africa and the Middle East. But quasi-anarchy in larger states like Russia and China, on which the territorial organization of Eurasia hinges, could be next - tied to structural economic causes linked, in turn, to slow growth world-wide.

They have no Aes Sedai touching the True Source to protect them. Blacksmith, perhaps the walls have weakened enough for the Dark One himself to touch events. Not with a free hand, or we'd be done already, but maybe tiny shiftings in the threads. A chance turning of one corner instead of another, a chance meeting, a chance word, or what seems like chance, and they could be so far under the Shadow not even Moiraine could bring them back.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

If poverty and underdevelopment are primarily consequences of poor institutions, then by weakening those institutions or stunting their development, large aid flows do exactly the opposite of what they are intended to do.

The fact that resistance to modern liberalism is weakening suggests that we are on the road to cultural disaster because, in their final stages, radical egalitarianism becomes tyranny and radical individualism descends into hedonism.

I said: He cannot be so bad if he loves roses so much. But he is a Beast, said Father helplessly. I saw that he was weakening, and wishing only to comfort him I said, Cannot a Beast be tamed?

Privatization radically alters power relations in our society by weakening groups like public employees and public school teachers.

To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

The world's whole sap is sunk

El cristianismo quiere dominar sobre animales de presa: su procedimiento es convertirlos en enfermos; el debilitamiento es la receta cristiana para la domesticación, para la civilización.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds—weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.

To put it another way, the weakening of monarchy which was essential to the emerging republicanism was driven in no small way by the desire of certain merchants to weaken the monarch's hold over the lushly lucrative African Slave Trade.

Stage 3 top as the upward advance loses momentu m and starts to trend sideways.

which would lead to further weakening in housing,