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Quotations about weakness

Sun TzuRouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

 - Sun Tzu

Tags:   strategy  vulnerability  weakness  

Joseph AddisonVanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

 - Joseph Addison

Tags:   character  vanity  weakness  

Michel de MontaigneThe most regular and most perfect soul in the world has but too much to do to keep itself upright from being overthrown by its own weakness.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   perfection  weakness  

John McWhorterOn racism, [woke] philosophy teaches black people that cries of weakness are a form of strength. It teaches us that in the richness of this thing called life, the most interesting thing about you is that the ruling class doesn't like you enough. It teaches us that to insist that black people can achieve under less than perfect conditions is ignorant slander. It teaches us that we are the first people in the history of the species for whom it is a form of heroism to embrace the slogan "Yes, we can't!" [woke] philosophy is, in all innocence, a form of racism in itself. Black America has met nothing so disempowering -- including the cops -- since Jim Crow.

 - John McWhorter

Tags:   disempowerment  racism  weakness