#weak

It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#body #confusion #large #large body #nation

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. ↗

— John Adams

#beyond #comprehension #great #power #soul

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. ↗

— Akhenaton

#armed #art #body #employ #furnished

Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#strength #strengthen #weakness

You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to. ↗

— Richard Dean Anderson

#bit #buy #character #comes #credibility

I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. ↗

— Timothy Garton Ash

#also #attack #been #criminal #danish

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#easier #influence #life #strong #than

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party. ↗

— Mary Astell

#defend #generous #honourable #may #me

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#imaginations #men #often #ruled #said

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states