Weakening Quotes - Page 4

• Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  Jack Kingston

  Religious, Anger, Roots

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• You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Cutting, Dwarves, Giants

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless (1950). “Business, Big and Small, Built America: Statement Before the Subcommittee on the Study of Monopoly Power of the House Committee on the Judiciary, Washington, D.C., April 26-28, 1950”

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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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• It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.

  Ross Douthat

  Silly, Looks, Significant

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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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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• Stockholders are used to a certain kind of global capitalism. This version is very hard on the environment and very hard on people below a certain fiscal level. It is a calculated, systematic weakening of people. Many labour, a few benefit. Try talking about cleaning up the place with these people. The hostility is incredible.

  Henry Rollins

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Country, Europe

  "Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Coalition's hard-line asylum seeker policies". "AM" with Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. October 28, 2015.

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• The deliberate weakening of the labour movement by the machinations of market fundamentalists, gaining momentum during the periods when Margaret Thatcher led the United Kingdom and Ronald Reagan governed in the United States, contributed to the decline of human rights.

  Richard A. Falk

  Rights, Labour Movement, Kingdoms

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own heritage, of its own practice of Islam, of its weakening of its own ethics, and many things which are internal to Islam not just external.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Loss, Practice

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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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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• Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the “tolerance trap” so that we are not swallowed up in it. The permissiveness afforded by the weakening of the laws of the land to tolerate legalized acts of immorality does not reduce the serious spiritual consequence that is the result of the violation of God’s law of chastity.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Spiritual, Law, Land

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• Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

  Storm Jameson

  Regret, Past, Long

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• Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.

  J. I. Packer

  Men, Negative, Growing

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• Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.

  Jared Diamond

  Life, Memories, Lying

  Jared Diamond (2013). “The Rise And Fall Of The Third Chimpanzee”, p.118, Random House

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• I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then periods of sort of weakening central authority. They undoubtedly face tremendous challenges.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Challenges, Growth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Government, Organization

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• But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Pride, Self, Pausing

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• We see that there are two worms that eat the fabric of the Church, weakening Her. Rivalry and vainglory go against this harmony, this agreement.

  Pope Francis

  Agreement, Two, Church

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• The most incredible thing is that so much happens outside of the will. You can't will anything. Not even solitude is an act of will. You simply endure it. You must hold on until the very end, without weakening. You can do nothing else. But you must not believe that because you accept being nothing, you are anyone special.

  Bram van Velde

  Believe, Solitude, Special

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• The brain likes to be efficient and so even as its strengthening the pathways you're exercising, it's pulling - it's weakening the connections in other ways between the cells that supported old ways of thinking or working or behaving, or whatever that you're not exercising so much.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Exercise, Thinking, Cells

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go up. If we don't increase membership - and membership in labor unions is going down because of the attacks against organized labor - it's something every single American, whether they're officially in a union or not, should be concerned about. It's a spiral. It's a weakening of the middle class and our economy can't sustain that.

  Nina Turner

  Class, Long, Wages

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In many ways, American evangelicalism is somewhat stronger today than it was in, say 1955 - certainly more mainstream and influential in the culture as a whole. But, the increased strength of evangelicalism hasn't increased fast enough to compensate for the total collapse of mainline Protestantism and the pretty steady weakening of my own Roman Catholic Church.

  Ross Douthat

  Catholic, Church, Stronger

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Memories, Heart, Yellow

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• All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

  Mario Bunge

  Communication, Serious, Study

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Libertarian, Helping

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

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