Quotes

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“Fear is stronger than love, remember that. Fear is stronger than love, all that love I gave didn't mean nothing when it came to fear.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

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“Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.”

Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church

Letter 118
Letters

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“Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
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“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

Source: The Hunger Games

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“But who is stronger than death?
Me, evidently.”

"Examination at the Womb-door"
Crow (1970)

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“No brain is stronger than its weakest think.”

Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist

Thomas L. Masson, Laughs (1926), p. 167.

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“Our demand for restraint in foreign policy must be stronger than defense contractor lobbyists. Our demand for criminal justice reform must be stronger than the prison-industrial complex.”

Ro Khanna (1976) U.S. Representative from California

Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674237311860736 (28 December 2018)

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“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Truly from Seneca the Younger, in De Ira, Book III, Chapter V:
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.
Misattributed

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“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.”
Aut potentior te aut inbecillior laesit: si inbecillior, parce illi, si potentior, tibi.

De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
Moral Essays

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“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”

Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure

Source: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge

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“Right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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“The force of circumstances… is stronger than even the strongest government”

Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician, archaeologist and writer

Vol. 1, Book II, Chapter 8. "Law. Religion. Military System. Economic Condition. Nationality"
The History of Rome - Volume 1
Context: The force of circumstances... is stronger than even the strongest government: the language and customs of the Latin people immediately shared (with Rome) its ascendancy in Italy, and already began to undermine the other Italian Nationalities.

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