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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

No government can be strong and flourishing while the national character is weak and degraded. A government must flourish and decay with its subjects; and, when a prince makes a law or performs an action which has a tendency to injure the character or prosperity of the nation, he injures himself.

It is the doctrine of the oligarchy that there is nothing that we hold in common, that the commonwealth is a myth, that it is even a sign of softheadedness and weakness. The oligarchical power feeds on the sense that we are all individuals, struggling on our own, and ennobled by the effort.

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.