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“Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”
Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer
“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
“But who is stronger than death?
Me, evidently.”
Ted Hughes book Crow
"Examination at the Womb-door"
Crow (1970)
“No brain is stronger than its weakest think.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist
Thomas L. Masson, Laughs (1926), p. 167.
Ro Khanna (1976) U.S. Representative from California
Source: Twitter post https://twitter.com/RoKhanna/status/1078674237311860736 (28 December 2018)
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
“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.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Ira (On Anger); Book III, Chapter V
Moral Essays
“Stronger than iron
crueler than death
sweeter than springtime
it lives beyond breath”
Juliet Marillier (1948) New Zealand fiction writer
“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
“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
“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale
Source: The Nightingale
“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.
“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
Clive Staples Lewis book The Problem of Pain
The Problem of Pain (1940)