A Quote by George Sand

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

George Sand

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George Sand
French - Novelist
July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton

Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton

Satirize wickedness if you must--but pity weakness.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

John Adams

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

Jonathan Mayhew

The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

Eric Hoffer

Do not become angry and furious.... for those two emotions lead to wickedness, and wickedness leads to the Hellfire.

Sufyan al-Thawri

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

Thomas Jefferson

Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

Michel de Montaigne

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Seneca the Younger

We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency.

Leonard Ravenhill

The Democratic Party is a coalition. Its strength and its weakness is, it's a coalition of interest groups, caucuses. It's a lot less homogeneous than the Republican Party, where people tend to believe the same things and oftentimes look alike.

Mark Shields

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