Haruki Murakami Quotes

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

I don't worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

You don't leave people who can't defend themselves.

I am compelled, because of my faith, to have compassion for the weak and vulnerable in our midst.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this assembly.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing.

The indomitable hatred of oppression is like a gem upon the front of our nation which no darkness can obscure.

Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

We are poor and our allies are few, but we have our bodies and justice as our tools.

There is no safety where there is no strength.

The reliance of our race upon the progress and achievements of others for a consideration in sympathy, justice and rights is like a dependence upon a broken stick, resting upon which will eventually consign you to the ground.

They'll never do this to you again.

I am a man of peace. God knows how I love peace. But I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.