Weakening Quotes - Page 5

• Senator Obama's support among hardworking Americans - white Americans - is weakening.

  Hillary Clinton

  White, Support, Hardworking

  "Monday-Morning Politics Update". "The Bryant Park Project", www.npr.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Listen Jesus to the warning I give. Please remember that I want us to live. But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour. All your followers are blind, too much heaven on their minds. It was beautiful, but now it's sour. Yes, it's all gone sour.

  Tim Rice

  Beautiful, Jesus, Giving

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• There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

  David Wessel

  Fall, Commodity Prices, Oil

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Separation of church and state in Virginia, instead of weakening Christianity, as the conservatives of the Revolution had feared, really aided it in securing a power over men far greater than it had known in the past.

  H. J Eckenrode

  Past, Men, Virginia

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• I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.

  George Packer

  Thinking, Class, Voice

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It is so true that in liquid modernity freedom was, so to speak, let off the leash, and for a quite a number of years the freedom of choice was "in principle" unlimited. One result was the weakening of inter-human bonds, particularly inherited bonds, and the counterfactual assumption that individuals must and can fend for themselves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Years, Numbers, Choices

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• The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Years, Hands

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.

  Franz Kafka

  Mean, Weakness, Principles

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• It [the internet] probably has the effect of weakening personal associations.

  Noam Chomsky

  Association, Internet, Effects

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Russia, Growth, Suffering

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Important, Abandon

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ethics, Socialism, Made

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 11 : The Discipline of Abstract Rules and the Emotions of the Tribal Society, 1973.

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• [On Brazil:] In our country everything is weakening. The money is weak. Democracy is weak and the politicians are very weak. Everything that is weak dies one day.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Country, One Day, Democracy

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• Lack of opportunity breeds dreams of escape. But professionals and managers who have invested in their careers do not leave the work force as frequently as discouraged workers in lower status occupations. Instead, they keep working, but they escape emotionally by defining achievement in professional, not company, terms. ... Thus, the potential for being stuck as career uncertainty grows takes its toll in weakening attachment to any particular employer.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Dream, Opportunity, Attachment

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Men and Women of the Corporation: New Edition”, p.328, Hachette UK

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• We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may we will do the right thing, that we will stand for the right cause, that we will be true to ourselves and to others. Then the pressures begin to build. Sometimes these are social pressures. Sometimes they are personal appetites. Sometimes they are false ambitions. There is a weakening of the will. There is a softening of discipline. There is capitulation. And then there is remorse, self-accusation, and bitter tears of regret.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Determination, Regret

  "And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly". General Conference, www.lds.org. April 1979.

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• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  Zebulon Pike

  Passion

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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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• Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

  Tom Hayden

  War, White, House

  Tom Hayden (2008). “Writings For A Democratic Society: The Tom Hayden Reader”, City Lights Publishers

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• This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

  Jacques Delors

  Distance, Government, Long

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• We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.

  Benjamin Franklin Fairless

  Business, Believe, Cutting

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• Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

  Jill Lepore

  Epidemics, Order, Stories

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• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Our World, Essence, Ideas

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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• The five C's of expanding your capacity.
  1. Build your confidence.
  2. Expand your connections.
  3. Improve your competence.
  4. Strengthen your character. If character is not strengthening your capacity is weakening. We need to check our leadership for leaks.
  5. Increase your commitment.

  Sheila Heen

  Commitment, Character, Connections

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• All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

  Beatrice Webb

  Drinking, Alcohol, Lines

  1917 Health of Working Girls, ch.10.

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• You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening - and it stays there, dangerous, waiting for the next opportunity to open up and destroy everything.

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Hurt, Pain, Passion

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