Quotes for All
The NSA was actually concerned back in the time of the crypto-wars with improving American security. Nowadays, we see that their priority is weakening our security, just so they have a better chance of keeping an eye on us. Edward Snowden
You know, we have moments of passion when we are in pain. And then of course the moment ends, and with it the passion and the pain, and we forgive and forget. But I think that every time you hurt somebody that you care for, a crack appears in your relationship, a little weakening – … Read more
While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we were to vanish today, the land environment would return to the fertile balance that existed before the human population explosion. Only a dozen or so species, among which are the crab louse and … Read more
What is wanted – whether this is admitted or not – is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, … Read more
When you’re happy, your immune system is at its strongest point. And when you think negatively, or when you hate, or allow yourself to grow emotionally out of control, you are weakening your immune system. Frederick Lenz
Socialism is simply a re-assertion of that tribal ethics whose gradual weakening had made an approach to the Great Society possible. Friedrich August von Hayek
Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction–that would not be anything to be deplored–but a weakness of conviction. Franz Kafka
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. Franklin D. Roosevelt
We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them. Dwight D. Eisenhower