“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
“The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.”
Source: The Foretelling
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Source: Captain Newman, M. D (1962), p. 328; this is also sometimes attributed to Leo Buscaglia, who often quoted it in his addresses and in his book Living, Loving and Learning (1982).
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Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian
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Kyuzo Mifune book The Canon of Judo
The Canon of Judo (1956, 1960)
“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
http://books.google.com/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&q=%22Weak+men+are+apt+to+be+cruel%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage
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Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
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Han Fei (-279–-232 BC) Chinese philosopher
國無常強，無常弱。奉法者強則國強，奉法者弱則國弱。
Source: "On Having Standards", in Han Feizi: Basic Writings (2003)
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States