Weakening Quotes - Page 3

• It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

  Naomi Wolf

  Strong, Smart, Democracy

  "The threat of a threat" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2007.

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• The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.

  Lady Gregory

  Strong, Moving, Moon

  Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.37, Wildside Press LLC

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• You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

  Paul Getty

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Class

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• What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

  Barney Frank

  Delay, Ethics, Republican

  "Oil-for-Food Scandal; Violence in Iraq; Operation FALCON". "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, edition.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

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• You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eras, Study

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• And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Strength, Leadership, Peace

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J. H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Courage, Freedom

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Politics

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Libertarian Party, Liberty, Discouraging

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• Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Anger, Anxiety

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.85, Ravenio Books

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• The NRA is weakening but the opposing forces are stronger. A member of Congress has and still does pay a price for voting against the NRA. But now a member pays a price for voting with the NRA, too. In many districts, the price is higher when a member votes with the NRA than against the NRA. The public is outraged.

  Charles Schumer

  Voting, Stronger, Pay

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.

  Max Stirner

  Stupid, Swings, Self

  Max Stirner, David Leopold (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and Its Own”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Long, Dollars

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• What is wanted - whether this is admitted or not - is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Individuality, Fundamentals

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• Halloween will be a slam-dunk for merchants despite the weakening consumer spending trends.

  Richard Hastings

  Halloween, Trends, Slam

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• No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christian, Men, Preaching

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• Ages of experience have taught us that the commitment of a husband and a wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. Marriage cannot be cut off from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening this good influence on society. Government, by recognizing and protecting marriage, serves the interests of all.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Children, Husband

  The President's Radio Address, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 3, 2006.

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• I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

  Immortal Technique

  War, Devil, Technique

  Song: Sign Of The Times, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith." ... "Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Gay, Men

  "Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriages". edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2004.

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• Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

  Karol Mikuli

  Emotional, Lines, Logic

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• Nothing is so weakening as regret.

  James G. Blaine

  Regret

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• The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Strong, Government, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may be hard to accept, but its true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them. At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation interests

  Jon Rappoport

  Men, Careers, Vaccines

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• We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals.

  Roland H. Hartley

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• The word comfort is from two Latin words meaning “with” and “strong” – He is with us to make us strong. Comfort is not soft, weakening commiseration; it is true, strengthening love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Strong, Latin, Two

  Amy Carmichael (1939). “Kohila; the shaping of an Indian nurse”

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