“You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak”
Pt. III, st. 19
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 52
“A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man. (Inspector Miller)”
Source: The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
“He (John Major) has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity.”
[Source: The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt: Volume 3, p. 437.]
“The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.”
Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses.
Letter 32: Madame de Volanges to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_32
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“… no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.”
Source: Just Wanna Testify
Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro (1933), Chapter XVIII: The Study of the Negro<!-- p. 131 -->
Context: The chief reason why so many give such a little attention to the background of the Negro is the belief that this study is unimportant. They consider as history only such deeds as those of Mussolini who after building up an efficient war machine with the aid of other Europeans would now use it to murder unarmed and defenseless Africans who have restricted themselves exclusively to attending to their own business. If Mussolini succeeds in crushing Abyssinia he will be recorded in "history" among the Caesars, and volumes written in praise of the conqueror will find their way to the homes and libraries of thousands of miseducated Negroes. The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with this interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
“Man has the hardest job of all, the job of making decisions on incomplete data.”
Home There’s No Returning (p. 80)
Short fiction, No Boundaries (1955)
