Top 1200 Weakness Of Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have undergone an internal transformation. But if man, man who is endowed with reason and kindness, should conquer, then Fascism must perish, and those who have submitted to it will once again become people.

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

If thou wouldn't conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire to send a message to those who ignore you.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.

When I get back to Derry I always enjoy a good fry-up that my mum makes. That's my big weakness. I also eat too much chocolate.

Your compassion is a weakness your enemies will not share.

When it comes to climate change it's all the usual barriers: greed, mendacity, ignorance, short-sightedness and so on, manifest in the extreme power of corporations, the weakness of government, and the indifference of citizens.

For Mr. Putin, vacillation invites aggression. His world is a brutish, cynical place, where power is worshiped, weakness is despised, and all rivalries are zero-sum.

I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single strength.

His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

You will have to go deep into man. From where comes this violence? From where comes this exploitation? From where come all these ego-trips? From where? They all come from unconsciousness. Man lives asleep, man lives mechanically. That mechanism has to be broken, man has to be re-done. That is the religious revolution that has not been tried.

My body is just built different. Some people try to look at it as a weakness, but I look at it as a blessing.

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.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

I have a weakness for anything savory or bad guys. Bad boys.

I am tired. My arm aches. My head boils. My feet are cold. But I am not aware of any weakness.

Out of the cross comes the resurrection. Out of weakness comes real strength.

People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.

A point must be repeated: only the pathological weakness of the financial memory...allows us to believe that the modern experience of....debt...is in any way a new phenomenon.

Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.

If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

Without hesitation, I'm voting Emmanuel Macron. Everything about the campaign of Marine Le Pen, despite its dressing of sovereignty, exudes fear and weakness.

There is nothing more effectual in showing us the weakness of any habitual fallacy or assumption than to hear it sympathetically through the ears, as it were, of a skeptic.

I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.

Men dissimulate their dearest, most constant, and most virtuous inclination from weakness and a fear of being condemned.

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Drew Callahan is my absolute weakness. Like a drug I can't get enough of. He's my addiction and if I'm honest with myself, I'm not looking to kick that particular habit anytime soon.

Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Maybe they didn't want you to realize that every civilization has its weakness. There's always one thing we depend on. And if someone takes it away all that's left is some story in a history class.

When dealing with Canadians, it is advantageous to seem to be negotiating from a position of weakness, for when faced with an abject opponent, they become concession-happy and will accede to almost anything.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness

Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

My vibrato was my weakness. With romantic pieces, I could be a lot more schmaltzy. My wider vibrato fit that.

Me showing my emotions... it's not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of passion.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.