“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
As quoted in Words Of Wisdom: Selected Quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2001) edited by Margaret Gee, p. 71.
“Compassion isn’t a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization.”
" Where is the Love? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/kristof-where-is-the-love.html?src=recg", New York Times, 27 November 2013
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Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002) by Christine R. Williams and Arlene Stein, p. 213
Context: The feminist line is, strippers and topless dancers are degraded, subordinated, and enslaved; they are victims, turned into objects by the display of their anatomy. But women are far from being victims — women rule; they are in total control … the feminist analysis of prostitution says that men are using money as power over women. I'd say, yes, that's all that men have. The money is a confession of weakness. They have to buy women's attention. It's not a sign of power; it's a sign of weakness.
“Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.”
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978) Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson
“The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.”
Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“But failure is not a sign of weakness. It is a sign that you are alive and growing.”
Buzz Aldrin (1930) American astronaut
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“All savageness is a sign of weakness.”
Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 3, line 4
Alternate translation: All cruelty springs from weakness. (translator unknown)
As quoted in Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1864), Harper & brothers, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment).
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“To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.”
Agatha Christie book The Seven Dials Mystery
Source: The Seven Dials Mystery
