“The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.”
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Mario Puzo 53
American Novelist 1920–1999Related quotes
“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
Bk. 2, Pt.. 5, Ch. 2: The Mother, p. 522
The Second Sex (1949)
Context: The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
“Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive,
The blessing lies.”
Twoscore and Ten.
“The strength of a chain is the strength of its weakest link.”
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The Furrow (1986)
“In separateness lies the world's great misery, in compassion lies the world's true strength.”
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
Variant: No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941), Part I: England Your England
"The Lion and the Unicorn" (1941)
Context: One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognizes the overwhelming strength of patriotism, national loyalty. In certain circumstances it can break down, at certain levels of civilization it does not exist, but as a positive force there is nothing to set beside it. Christianity and international Socialism are as weak as straw in comparison with it. Hitler and Mussolini rose to power in their own countries very largely because they could grasp this fact and their opponents could not.