“I have to forge my weapons according to the strength of the resistance.”
Argentina Audiotapes (1957)
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Peter Hitchens (1951) author, journalist
2013-07-03
Christopher Hitchens on the Clinton-Lewinsky Political Sex Scandal (1998)
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On the fairness of comparing Clarence Thomas to Bill Clinton
“Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.”
H. G. Wells book The First Men in the Moon
Source: The First Men in the Moon (1901), Ch. 18: In the Sunlight
“The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”
Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena
Source: Letters to Milena
Irving Kristol (1920–2009) American columnist, journalist, and writer
New Leader, April 1, 1963.
1960s
“If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than our strength.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Si nous résistons à nos passions, c'est plus par leur faiblesse que par notre force.
If we conquer our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
Maxim 122.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" National Coalition Against Censorship and PEN defend Met’s showing of a “controversial” painting https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/national-coalition-against-censorship-and-pen-defend-mets-showing-of-a-controversial-painting/" December 9, 2017