Weakness Of Man Quotes

• The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Weakness, Culture

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.96, Open Road Media

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• The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Weakness, Facade

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• Women deluded by these sentiments, sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well glory in their illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power than their masters: but virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the respectability of life to the triumph of an hour.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Real, Men, May

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.80

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• For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Men, Flesh, Able

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Men, Weakness

  Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.9, Beacon Press

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• The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• All people, entrepreneurs as well as non-entrepreneurs, look askance upon any profits earned by other people. Envy is a common weakness of men. People are loath to acknowledge the fact that they themselves could have earned profits if they had displayed the same foresight and judgment the successful businessman did.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Successful, Men, Envy

  Ludwig Von Mises (1974). “Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses”

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