A Quote by Leo Rosten

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Leo Rosten

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Strength Cruel Expected Gentleness Learned Only Strong Weak

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Leo Rosten
American - Writer
April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Alice Hoffman

I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

Juliet Marillier

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Milan Kundera

Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing.

Guy Finley

The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the dull and the shrewd, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the wise and the ignorant… the strong, or those who ultimately dominated, were so very strong, and the weak so very, very weak - and so very, very many.

Theodore Dreiser

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

Christian D. Larson

of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The strong conquer the weak. The weak serve the strong and hope to become strong so they can conquer others who are weaker.

Frederick Lenz

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

Voltaire

The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.

Elbert Hubbard

And using that - the birth of a religion, it suggests that you have got two tests. You have the test of weakness. When you're weak, do you compromise, do you bend, do you give in, do you accommodate? And then the test of strength. When you're strong, are you merciful, are you generous, or are you cruel?

Salman Rushdie

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.