A Quote by Bassem Youssef
There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.
Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.
I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served.
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.
I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.
Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.
There is no harm in making people laugh by making fun of yourself. What's wrong is when people derive pleasure from making fun of others.
That's love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down.
If I'm making fun of race or making fun of the differences of us, it's just because it's a reality of the situation of the world. And, if you can't laugh at it, that's kind of a bummer.
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