I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise it is said and principles should never be compromised.

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Money demands that you sell not your weakness to men's stupidity but your talent to their reason.

Stronger by weakness wiser men become.

Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious perhaps a weakness as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness the theologian all the stupidity.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude poverty will not be poverty nor weakness weakness.

There would not be enough talent that's educated developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen but that could be a weakness.

Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Making use of human weaknesses in intelligence work is a logical matter. It keeps coming up and of course you try to look at all the aspects that interest you in a human being.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life but a way of wasting some force an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery above weakness above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time watching hunger nakedness dizziness in the head weakness in the stomach and other inconveniences.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness that our only hope is in God.

Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings their weakness. It's also about mutual help not about exploitation.

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding mutual confidence sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.