Quotes About Weakness

The best is to do injustice without paying the penalty; the worst is to suffer it without being able to take revenge. Justice is a mean between these two extremes. People value it not because it is a good but because they are too weak to do injustice with impunity.

O halde, her bilgi, kendinden üstün olan?n iÅŸine geleni deÄŸil, kendi yönetimi alt?nda olan?n yani güçsüzün iÅŸine geleni gözetir ve buyurur.

for a country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful.

Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent? He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.

All power shits. All power sleeps . Strength must be aimed , and so are all things exposed, all things weak. To despise weakness is to loathe existence itself

Jack of all trades, master of none...He'd always thought knowing many things gave him strength. Now it made him feel vulnerable.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought I was and weaker than I'd hoped to be, and in between those two extremes is a little thing called life.

Nous aimons, sans nous en douter, tout ce qui nous livre à nos penchants, nous séduit et excuse notre faiblesse.

Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is.

In English, the word "left" derives from the Anglo-Saxon lyft, which means "weak" or "useless.

Out of the foolishness of the cross comes the unsearchable wisdom of God. So we have to turn to something very weak and very foolish to receive God's wisdom and God's strength.

We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.

A victim is in a position of weakness and subject to the whims of others. Heroes are people who determine their own fate and their own future. A victim had nothing to give and no choice to make. A hero has the strength and ability to be generous and forgiving and the power and freedom that come from being able to make the choice of forgiveness.

She was entirely calm, no more than a conduit for the ancient savagery that men call motherhood, who mistake its tenderness for weakness.

Percy lifted his shoulders in the faintest of Gallic shrugs. As you like, it said. And yet his eyes—they were still beautiful, damn him, dark and soft—rested on Grey with what seemed a genuine sympathy. Grey sighed. Doubtless it was genuine. Percy could not be trusted—not ever—but what he'd done had been done from weakness, not from malice, or even lack of feeling.

Drew's a total wimp.

All cruelty springs from weakness." —Seneca

the difference between a strong and weakened civilization is its ratio of internal continuities and discontinuities – and when the latter increase so as to overwhelm the former, then zippo, the civilization collapses from within itself.

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.

Tutte belle cose, però io avevo l'impressione che in quel tempo mio fratello non solo fosse del tutto ammattito, ma andasse anche un poco imbeliccendosi, cosa questa più grave e dolorosa, perché la pazzia è una forza della natura nel male o nel bene, mentre la minchioneria è una debolezza della natura, senza contropartita.

strong actors have a lower interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is not at stake, whereas weak actors have a high interest in a fight's outcome because their survival is at stake.