Quotes About Weaken

If the foundations are rotten - everything's rotten.

Ah, the foolishness of men who embraced the notion that loving would weaken them.

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

If we take away any of the attributes of God, we do not weaken God but we weaken our concept of God.

Unions have long championed measures to reduce social and economic inequality, and efforts to weaken the labor movement at both the state and federal level have successfully stalled any progress.

Stand-your-ground laws are a favorite of the NRA gun lobby and their push to weaken our nation's gun laws.

The values of the Left cripple human beings, weaken cities, make it difficult for us to in fact survive as a country.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

Student loans, Social Security, and Medicare make a difference in the lives of working families every day, and the conversation that should be taking place is how we can save these programs, not weaken them.

I have and will continue to be an advocate for the important role the CFPB plays in our economy. In fact, I have voted overwhelmingly against legislation that would weaken, defund, or eliminate the agency.

As the U.K.'s position as a global financial services hub weakens, our competitors will lose no time in attracting jobs in services from our shores.

Back on September 11, terrorists attacked our metropolitan cores, two of America's great cities. They did that because they knew that was where they could do the most damage and weaken us the most.

Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.

A seduction should never settle into a comfortable routine. The middle and later chapters will instruct you in the art of alternating hope and despair, pleasure and pain, until your victims weaken and succumb.

The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

And what was the purpose of all these dubious and conspiratorial actions? It was "to diminish the United States in world affairs, to weaken us militarily, to confuse our spirit with talk of surrender in the Far East, and impair our will to resist."33

What would happen if I accidentally drained the energy out of one of them?" "Would it just weaken them?" "No, they'd start to dry out like mummies." "Like what you did to Chimera?" Claudia asked. "Yeah." "Don't do that." She said.

But that's part of the warfare guys. Satan set this whole thing up so he could weaken us with gossip and slander. We need to do as much as we can to protect ourselves from that, or at least provide no fuel for the fire

To ABATE  (ABA'TE)   v.a.[from the French abbatre, to beat down.]1. To lessen, to diminish.

Attempt to weaken the media, the pillar of transparent democracy in whatever description is disloyalty to the State and Nation that can open the route of conspiracies.

My thinking was this: Just because you're out to curb some of the ridiculous costs doesn't mean you're out to weaken the nation's defense.

It is our discomforts which provoke, which create consciousness; their task accomplished, they weaken and disappear one after the other. Consciousness however remains and survives them, without recalling what it owes to them, without even ever having known. Hence it continually proclaims its autonomy, its sovereignty, even when it loathes itself and would do away with itself.

Dubya was their public face, and may not have even known it. He's a Texas jokester who couldn't manage a Wal-Mart and the Inner Circle put him in the Oval Office for two terms while they moved behind the scenes." "What about the current administration?" asked Gault. "The Inner Circle doesn't have the same kind of control over this president, which is why they are trying to weaken him and discredit his accomplishments.