Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

It will make you powerful. But it will also make you weak. Your prowess in combat will be beyond any mortal's, but your weaknesses, your failings will increase as well." You mean I'll have a bad heel?" I said. "Couldn't I just, like, wear something besides sandals? No offense.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

You are human and mortal; we are the sum of our weak moments and our strong.

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.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

I don't want to be all power and muscle.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

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

Every man alive in the world is a beggar of one sort or another, every last one of them, great and small. The priest begs God for grace, and the king begs something for something. Sometimes he begs the people for loyalty, sometimes he begs God to forgive him

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.

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

Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.

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.

Weakness is provocative.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Weak people always attack strong people - it's safer. It's weak people who are dangerous, who lash out uncontrollably and hurt you back. Stong people can walk away - no repercussions, you see, if you attack a stong person.

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

The strongest have their moments of fatigue.

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.