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“He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong”

Hands Strong Causes Saws Weak Injustice Tyranny Oppression Hypocrisy Thrones Splendid Altars Benches Paine

Book:An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine

Source: An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine

“Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.”

States Moments Seems Government Given Nations Causes Interest United Opinion Enemy Break United States Society Consequence Direct Weak Defense Insignificant Trifles Weak Points

Author:James F. Cooper

“There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.”

Men Long War Done Strong Nations Causes Weak Injustice Lasting Impossibility

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.”

World Doe Causes Prayer This World Projects Weak Factors Preacher Ministry Powerless

Book:Power Through Prayer

Source: Power Through Prayer

“public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.”

May Causes Poor Weak Endure Debt Activism Immortality Assured Joints Bullied Niece Vicarious

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.”

People World Whole Character Suffering Causes Amount Weakness Weak Immense Civilisation Weak Character

Book:A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

Source: A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979

“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and apathy toward the weak, the poor the oppressed and the needy (Ps. 82), the church can hardly carry out its role in manifesting, on earth and in heaven, Christ's victory over these gods without taking up as a central part of its missions just these causes. We can, in truth, no more bifurcate social concerns and individual salvation than we can bifurcate the cosmic and anthropocentric dimensions of Christ's work on the cross.”

Source: God at War: The Bible & Spiritual Conflict

“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.”

“... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.”

Evil Social Causes Class Policy Racism Weak Injustice African American Fixed Persecution Contagious Hurtful Defenseless African American Women Social Evils

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak.”

Love Causes Poor Powerful Rich Speech Weakness Weak Unhappy Attractive Affirmation Unattractive Attractiveness Unloved Self Talk Rich Or Poor Being Unloved

Author:Ralph Charell

“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.”

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“I think we fought Vietnam for the benefits of civilization, and certainly we fought it to oppose authority. To show our authority, to show we weren't weak. Isn't that what Nixon kept saying? "We have to show the world that we're not weak." So of course what we ended up showing the world was that we were, yep, weak. 'Cause we couldn't beat these kids in black pajamas.”

Thinking World Shows Kids Courses Causes Black Civilization Authority Benefits Beats Weak Vietnam Pajamas

Author:Stephen King

“It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of suffering. We become miserable because we are weak. We lie, steal, kill and commit other crimes, because we are weak. We die because we are weak. Where there is nothing to weaken us, there is no death nor sorrow. We are miserable through delusion. Give up the delusion and the whole thing vanishes.”

World Giving Whole Lying Suffering Dies Causes Strength Crime This World Sorrow Giving Up Weakness Weak Misery Stealing Commit Miserable Delusion Vedanta

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble. What we need is love To guide and protect us on. If you hope good down from above, Help the weak if you are strong now.”

Ifs Needs War Helping Strong Causes Trouble Protect Weak Guides Making Love

Author:Bob Marley

“Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.”

People Thinking Mean Care Opportunity Causes Position Weak Reform Celebration Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.”

Strong Causes Intellectual Argument Weak Bitter Bitterness Bitter Words

Author:Victor Hugo

“Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.”

Ifs Men World Whole Would Be Strong Causes Weak Whole World Remembered

Book:Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

Source: Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic

“My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.”

Made Used Names Causes Easy New York Beats Weak Moved Dumb Ireland Frank Grandfather My Grandfather Announcements Switching Florence

Author:Greg Fitzsimmons

“How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead of dismissing the problem with: "We do not understand because we cannot find the cause," we immediately imagine terrible mysteries and supernatural powers.”

Mind Facts Problem Causes Imagine Mystery Terrible Weak Terrified Unbalanced Supernatural Powers

Book:Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James

Source: Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James

“If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.”

Ifs Humans Looks May Causes Pride Built Weak Foundation Storm Fragile Collapse Cornerstones Conditional Human Wisdom Conditional Love Weak Foundation

Author:Charles Stanley

“Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools.”

Men Mind Causes Failing Failure Pride Fool Weak Blind Vices Judgement Strongest Bias Blind Man Erring

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author

“The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.”

“Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter the pain it causes. Mothers can turn you invisible with neglect. They can erase you with a denial, a refusal to see. Friends can deceive you. People lie. It is a cold, hard world. I do not blame Nell Hawkins for retreating from it into a madness of her own choosing.”

“I'm losing myself trying to compete With everyone else instead of just being me Don't know where to turn I've been stuck in this routine I need to change my ways Instead of always being weak I don't wanna be afraid I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today And know that I'm okay 'Cause everyone's perfect in unusual ways You see, I just wanna believe in me”

“I get that we can't be together. And it's not like I'm so weak-willed that the simple act of saying hello to me will cause me to jump your bones in the hall.”

Together Causes Simple Weak Bones Halls Hello Saying Hello

Book:Torn

Source: Torn

“Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.”

Causes Weak Philosophical Speakers Orators Vehement

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.”

Thinking Men Wisdom Law Speak Strong Causes Half Liberty Risk Willing He Man Honor Weak Freedom Of Speech Other Half Weak Will

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“In what is seen, there should be just the seen; In what is heard, there should be just the heard; In what is sensed, there should be just the sensed; In what is thought, there should be just the thought. He should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should he incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak in the world.”

World Should Strong Causes Heard Buddhism Weak Buddhist Spiritual Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.”

Strong Causes Beats Weak Weak Will

Book:Sophocles

Source: Sophocles

“Some of you been trying to write rhymes for years, But weak ideas irritate my ears. Is this the best that you can make? Cause if not, and you got more...I'll wait.”

Ifs Writing Trying Years Ideas Causes Waiting Weak Ears Hip Hop Rap Rhyme

Author:Rakim

“One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.”

World Should Strong Causes Buddhism Weak Vegan Spiritual Buddhist

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance the weak passions of my sex should damp the fortitude, the patriotism, and the manly resolution of yours. May nothing ever check that glorious spirit of freedom which inspires the patriot in the cabinet, and the hero in the field, with courage to maintain their righteous cause, and to endeavor to transmit the claim to posterity, even if they must seal the rich conveyance to their children with their own blood.”