Weak

Famous quotes containing the word weak:

“Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. A Republic is a government in which that attention is divided between many, who are all doing uninteresting actions. Accordingly, so long as the human heart is strong and the human reason weak, Royalty will be strong because it appeals to diffused feeling, and Republics weak because they appeal to the understanding.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

“Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“Nothing convinces persons of a weak understanding so effectually, as what they do not comprehend.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)