Weakening Quotes

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.