Georges Bidault Quotes

The weak are always at war with the stronger; that is the source of eternal hatreds.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

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.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

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

Where there is no might right loses itself.

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

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

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.