Vernon Howard Quotes

In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger.

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

How little authority I have

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

A lot of writers whom I love, admire and call friends share this feeling, which is this fundamental idea that we're frauds. That we will be pushed out on to the stage, and it will be revealed that the emperor has no clothes.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

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

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

During the times of peace and prosperity a leader becomes careless and unmindful of the future

The most demeaning sin is to remain weak in the world. It not only destroys us, but also incites others to attack us with violence.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish. If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.

The British Government is a strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

We know, deep down, that repression is not the wave of the future. We know that the desire for freedom is not confined to, or owned by, any culture; it is the inborn hope of our humanity. We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just and the weak are valued. And we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with preserving and protecting democracy.