Top 100 Quotes About The Weak
#1. We're all imperfect and we all have needs. The weak usually do not ask for help, so they stay weak. If we recognize that we are imperfect, we will ask for help and we will pray for the guidance necessary to bring positive results to whatever we are doing.
John Wooden
#2. Let me tell you a secret, Caitlin. We're still in the cave. It's just bigger, and we wear nicer clothes. We make alliances and try to be civil, we save the weak instead of leaving them out in the cold to die ...
Greg Iles
#3. But for her there was no possibility of a clear conscience, merely the weak absolution of honesty, of confession.
She could not buy into the cycle of sin and penance. She would always remember what she had done, and it would always sting. She would not be washed clean.
Sonja Yoerg
#6. But better far it is to speak
One simple word, which now and then
Shall waken their free nature in the weak
And friendless sons of men.
James Russell Lowell
#7. Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.
Balroop Singh
#8. The weak makes excuses, the strong makes changes.
Habeeb Akande
#9. Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise.
Drew Karpyshyn
#10. Those who are not free to live as they choose are second class citizens. The weak will lose everything to the strong, even their lives.
Naoyuki Ochiai
#12. Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.
Max Anders
#15. If ever tears and pleadings have served the weak to fight the strong, let them do so now!
Thomas Hardy
#16. What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
Paul Wellstone
#17. The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
Samuel Smiles
#18. When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.
Nina Burleigh
#19. We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.
Archie Fire Lame Deer
#20. This is life ... Not a peace treaty, not an idealistic dream, but a grim dance of death and survival. The strong live on while the weak
the ones too small or too foolish to fight back
die in agony and blood.
Dan Wells
#22. The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' " ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it.
David Mitchell
#23. In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.
Sophie Turner
#24. We've become so fearful and vengeful that we've thrown away children, discarded the disabled, and sanctioned the imprisonment of the sick and the weak - not because they are a threat to public safety or beyond rehabilitation but because we think it makes us seem tough, less broken.
Bryan Stevenson
#26. The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
Carter G. Woodson
#27. The Great and the Least, The Rich and the Poor, The Weak and the Strong, In Joy and Sorrow, In Tragedy and Triumph, You are ALL MY CHILDREN
Agnes Nixon
#28. The forgiveness of the weak is the air you strong ones breath, David. Didn't you know? You don't see it but you felt it just then. They allow you to go on living.
Nadeem Aslam
#29. Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.
Lactantius
#30. But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.
David Mitchell
#31. In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
Sophocles
#32. Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve
#33. All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.
Karleen Koen
#35. All the good things on this earth are trophy cups. The strong win them. The weak lose them.
from a speech by the Nazi Minister of Education
William L. Shirer
#36. The screams failed to spread, as the strong hugged the weak and comforted them. That was something to be proud of, in the last moments of the old humanity.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#37. Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#38. Consciousness amplifies the weak signals that, like cobwebs spun between trees, web Narratives together. Moreover, it amplifies them selectively and in that way creates feedback loops that steer the Narratives.
Neal Stephenson
#39. Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil.
David Gemmell
#40. Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would not survive.
Hany Abu-Assad
#41. The World is pretty much divided between the weak of mind & the strong- between those who can act & those who cannot, & it is the bounden Duty of the Capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them.
Jane Austen
#42. If you are strong, torture not the weak,
And thus lay not the axe to thy empire.
Guru Gobind Singh
#43. God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
Billy Graham
#44. The truly noble heart sacrifices itself for others' good, to defend the weak and the good against evil. To a heart like this, a heart devoted to chivalry, courage is a matter of form.
J. Aaron Gruben
#45. Watch. Anyone who turns away will be considered weak. And the weak shall die. - Adrian
Donna Galanti
#46. I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.
Eric Morecambe
#47. Revenge is a motivator only for the weak-willed.
Nora Sakavic
#48. The fairy tale belongs to the poor ... I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#49. None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
#50. The labor movement is organized upon a principle that the strong shall help the weak.
John L. Lewis
#51. I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak
Ian Hislop
#52. The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.
Edward Young
#53. In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
Jose Bergamin
#54. The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
Edmund Burke
#55. Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
Joseph Joubert
#56. My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!
Dante Alighieri
#57. But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time - I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other than in the weak, finite mind of man.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#58. Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.
Edwin Arnold
#59. The strong are given more to bear than the weak and learn from the challenge.
Eli Gottlieb
#60. Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#61. There are different kinds of predators. There are the kinds who target the weak. And there are those with more of a Dexter vibe who don't lose sleep if a child abuser has a hard time on the way to the station.
Jonathan Maberry
#62. Trust is for the weak [...] and love is for victims.
Heather Burch
#63. Lying is for the weak-minded. If you can't think of a truthful way to solve your problems, you're not thinking hard enough.
Robin Brande
#64. There can be no real fight between a tiger and a chicken; between the love and the man; between the strong and the weak!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#66. there is no territory in the centre", and even if White gets imposing thickness or influence there, where are the weak Black groups to make use of it? They are invisible but Shuei sees them.
John Fairbairn
#67. Resentment, born of weakness, harms no one more than the weak person himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#68. The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.
T.K. Naliaka
#69. Christianity, as a product of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulting from strength, and that, in consequence, all forces which tend to promote or elevate life have been seriously undermined.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. The truest picture of life in the past incorporated the interplay of all aspects of life, the good and the bad, the strong and the weak. It was no good pretending anything else.
Michael Crichton
#71. If there are gods, they made sheep so wolves could eat mutton, and they made the weak for the strong to play with.
George R R Martin
#72. The strong and the weak cannot keep company.
Aesop
#73. The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate ... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.
John F. Kennedy
#74. The strong need the weak as much as the weak need the strong
Jean Vanier
#75. That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#76. The church always has need for prayer. There are always some in her midst who are declining, or falling into open sin. There are lambs to be prayed for, that they may be carried in Christ's bosom: the strong, lest they grow presumptuous; and the weak, lest they become despairing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. The rate of photosynthesis is the same for all the trees. The trees, it seems, are equalizing differences between the strong and the weak.
Peter Wohlleben
#78. To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong.
Dee Brown
#80. He knew that prejudice was a necessary part of the weak spirit of some men.
Dan Groat
#82. Writers need to be tough. This is not for the weak of will. And we have to realize that, yeah, it's never good enough. It's not like fixing a car where it's precise and we know what the end result will be definitively.
David Morrell
#83. Marriage isn't for the weak or lazy. It's work, and it should be. What would be the point otherwise?
J.D. Robb
#85. I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)
Lisa Bevere
#87. These are only new devices for putting the weak at the mercy of the strong.
Nikola Tesla
#88. It's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them.
Rachel Field
#89. I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
Sidney Poitier
#91. Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.
Chuck Pfarrer
#92. These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Douglas Sirk
#93. This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment ... It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
Carl Linnaeus
#94. Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn't a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.
Jeannette Walls
#95. All the weak and undeveloped minds in every religion or country have only one way of loving their own ideal, i.e. by hating every other ideal.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. When I was at Berkeley, the framework of quantum field theory could calculate the dynamics of electromagnetism. It could roughly describe the motion of the weak nuclear force, radiation. But it hit a brick wall with the strong interaction, the binding force.
David Gross
#98. It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#99. Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#100. The great focus on their dreams;
the weak focus on their nightmares.
Matshona Dhliwayo