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“There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.”

Giving Long Hands Strong Simple Answers Weapons Gun Weak Stronger Democratic Complexes Bows Gun Control Rifles Claws Grenade

Book:The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

Source: The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humilation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.”

Men Hands Pain Order Turns Justice Powerful Rich Huge Degrees Capacity Weak Machines Misery Injustice Resistance Tension Governing Rich Man Bursting Sly Cogs Boiler

Author:Georges Bernanos

“When I look into your eyes I still get weak And when Im this close to you I just cant speak And its hard to keep my hands to myself When I know I could never love anybody else”

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Author:Gary Allan

“The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.”

“He [Jesus] fought and conquered. On the one hand, he was man who struggled for his fathers and through his obedience cancelled their disobedience. On the other hand, he bound the strong one and freed the weak and bestowed salvation on his handiwork by abolishing sin. For he is our compassionate and merciful Lord who loves mankind ... Had not man conquered man's adversary, the enemy would not have been conquered justly. Again, had it not been God who bestowed salvation we would not possess it securely.”

Men Has Beens Hands Father Jesus Strong Sin Lord Enemy Mankind Weak Salvation Bounds Obedience Compassionate Adversaries Disobedience Merciful Handiwork

Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they face the trials of life. Despite the challenges and tests life has to offer—from marriage or lack of marriage, children’s choices, poor health, lack of opportunities, and many other problems—they remain remarkably strong and immovable and true to the faith. Our sisters throughout the Church consistently “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.”

“I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.”

Men Hands Weak Beloved Country Cry The Beloved Country

Book:Cry, the Beloved Country

Source: Cry, the Beloved Country

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.”

Persons Helping Hands Strong Nations President Compassion Weak Firm Gentle Presidential Behave Thoughtful Insecurity Boast Helping Hand Strong Person Rashness Bluster

Author:Jimmy Carter

“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”

Knows Want Feels May Hands Government Law Order Poor Rich Ready Authority Weak Bases Chains Acknowledge Fishing Protest Free Will Steel Spiders Spider Web

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”

Knows Hands Government Law Poor Courage Rich Weak Chains Fishing Steel Spiders Anarchism Spider Web

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon