André Maurois (1885–1967) French writer
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Growing Old
“Strength without agility is a mere mass.”
— Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet
Ibid.
The Book of Disquiet
Original: A força sem a destreza é uma simples massa.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Strength without agility is a mere mass." by Fernando Pessoa?
Fernando Pessoa288
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi… 1888–1935Related quotes
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
The Age of Discontinuity (1969)
1960s - 1980s
John D. MacDonald (1916–1986) writer from the United States
Travis McGee series, The Scarlet Ruse (1973)
Context: Way over half the murders committed in this country are by close friends or relatives of the deceased. A gun makes a loud and satisfying noise in a moment of passion and requires no agility and very little strength. How many murders wouldn't happen, if they all had to use hammers and knives?
David Pearce (philosopher) (1959) British transhumanist
1.10 On the Misguided Romanticisation of Feline Psychopaths https://www.hedweb.com/hedethic/hedon1.htm#feline <br class="br"> The Hedonistic Imperative https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/514875 (1995)
“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Skinny Legs and All (1990)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Speech in West Calder, Scotland (27 November 1879), quoted in W. E. Gladstone, Midlothian Speeches 1879 (Leicester University Press, 1971), p. 116.
1870s
Context: My fourth principle is—that you should avoid needless and entangling engagements. You may boast about them, you may brag about them, you may say you are procuring consideration of the country. You may say that an Englishman may now hold up his head among the nations. But what does all this come to, gentlemen? It comes to this, that you are increasing your engagements without increasing your strength; and if you increase your engagements without increasing strength, you diminish strength, you abolish strength; you really reduce the empire and do not increase it. You render it less capable of performing its duties; you render it an inheritance less precious to hand on to future generations.
“How can one govern without taxes, without strength, without authority?”
Jose Cecilio del Valle (1777–1996) Honduran politician-
1833
“There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
“Influence without control is a weapon of mass destruction.”
Isaac Mashman (2000) businessman, speaker