"The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak."

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Source : "Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture". Book by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, edited by Patrick Riley, 1990.

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

#Fear Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.”
“You'd think that I'd be dieting, but I'm not.”
“The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.”
“I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.”
“The telling of stories creates the real world.”
“What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification for what they did-or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?”

Source : "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Book by Walter M. Miller, Jr., 1960.
“Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.”

Source : "George Ayittey: How to Defeat a Dictator". Interview with Thor Halvorssen, www.huffingtonpost.com.
“Inside you thereâ€™s an artist you donâ€™t know aboutâ€¦ say yes quickly, if you know, if youâ€™ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”

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