“In this world that destroys me, the only thing that I can do is to live my weakness. That weakness is my only strength.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
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“You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me by your strength.”
Inaugural Address (4 March 1853).
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“My greatest strength is the love for my people, my greatest weakness is that I love them too much.”
Interview with Sir David Frost on the BBC, 1972.
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Section 42
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Context: It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it.
