Quotes About Vulnerability

peau nue contre la sienne, nue aussi, mais hélas ! nue comme sont nus les os.

Comme la plupart des hommes peu intelligents et de muscles développés, il est d'une grande timidité.

The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to look down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than know just how easy it is to hurt me.

This would be so goddamn much easier if I weren't human," she said. "Think about it. If I weren't human, why the hell would I care whether you got raped?

Then show me what you are. Give me the trust you ask me to give you.

The police," my father told them, "may be able to avenge you, but they can't protect you.

Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

Human competitiveness and territoriality were often at the root of particularly horrible fashions in oppression. We human beings seem always to have found it comforting to have someone to took down on—a bottom level of fellow creatures who are very vulnerable, but who can somehow be blamed and punished for all or any troubles. We need this lowest class as much as we need equals to team with and to compete against and superiors to look to for direction and help.

Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

Sharing is a weakness, a shameful secret. A person who knows what I am can hurt me, betray me, disable me with little effort.

Of course they would come back, or others would come. That would happen no matter what. And Cory was right. The next thieves might not lose their guns and run away. So what? Should we lie in our beds and let them take all we had and hope they were content with stripping our gardens? How long does a thief stay content? And what's it like to starve?

The penalty for being too poor to be worth robbing is a beating, a rape, and/or death.

I couldn't move her. She was afraid, and that made her defensive.

breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.

It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out.

Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.

There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane. And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to starve later because of destroyed crops? That's nature. Is it God? Most of the dead are the street poor who have nowhere to go and who don't hear the warnings until it's too late for their feet to take them to safety. Where's safety for them anyway? Is it a sin against God to be poor?

I reappeared wet, muddy, and scared to death.

Jail for Bankole could have meant being sold into a period of hard, unpaid labor—slavery. Perhaps if he had been younger, the deputies might have taken his money and arrested him anyway on some trumped-up charge. I had begged him not to go, not to trust any police or government official. It seemed to me such people were no better than gangs with their robbing and slaving.

Crazy to live without a wall to protect you.

Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.