Weakness Quotes

The fundamental weakness of western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit.

You'll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong [before Capitol Riots].

Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people, including women and children, is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world. These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution. President Obama said in 2012 that he would establish a "red line" against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing. The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable attack.

This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: death, destruction and weakness.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength, hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.

Some women have a weakness for shoes...I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

A war based on Satyagraha is always of two kinds. One is the war we wage against injustice, and the other we fight our own weaknesses.

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Democracy has disappeared in several other great nations - disappeared not because the people of those nations disliked democracy, but because they had grown tired of unemployment and insecurity, of seeing their children hungry while they sat helpless in the face of government confusion, government weakness - weakness through lack of leadership in government.

In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man.

Man is more than a producing animal guided by economic forces; he is a being of spirit, crowned with glory and honor, endowed with the gift of freedom. The ultimate weakness of Communism is that it robs man of that quality which makes him man.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

Weakness is not treason, though it may be equally disastrous.