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Arthur Rimbaud 66
French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891Related quotes
“The world mistakes Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence.”
“Liar, liar, abaya on fire,” http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27264 WorldNetDaily.com, April 17, 2002.
2000s
“The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.”
United States ex rel. Caminito v. Murphy, 222 F.2d 698, 706 (1955).
“One ought to have the moral character and tolerance to forgive people’s weaknesses.”
Source: Excerpts of letter to his first wife (14 July 1975)
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.”
20 July 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
1910s, The Progressives, Past and Present (1910)
Context: Yet surely it is the duty of every public man to try to make all of us keep in mind, and practice, the moralities essential to the welfare of the American people. It is of vital concern to the American people that the men and women of this great Nation should be good husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, sons and daughters; that we should be good neighbors, one to another, in business and in social life; that we should each do his or her primary duty in the home without neglecting the duty to the State; that we should dwell even more on our duties than on our rights; that we should work hard and faithfully; that we should prize intelligence, but prize courage and honesty and cleanliness even more. Inefficiency is a curse; and no good intention atones for weakness of will and flabbiness of moral, mental, and physical fiber; yet it is also true that no intellectual cleverness, no ability to achieve material prosperity, can atone for the lack of the great moral qualities which are the surest foundation of national might. In this great free democracy, more than in any other nation under the sun, it behooves all the people so to bear themselves that, not with their lips only but in their lives, they shall show their fealty to the great truth pronounced of old—the truth that Righteousness exalteth a nation.
“An aristocrat in morals as in mind.”
About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship (1930), p. 130.
“No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Helen to Ralph
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.”
Source: Biographia Literaria (1817), Ch. II