Marlene Dietrich Quotes

The weak are always at war with the stronger; that is the source of eternal hatreds.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

The one without a sword gets humiliated.

If you have maximum liberty then the strong can destroy the weak, and if you have absolute equality, you cannot have absolute liberty …. Total liberty can be dreadful, total equality can be equally frightful.

When you are about to badger the weak, Then imagine yourself before a more powerful man.

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

It can be dangerous to weaken the strong in our attempts to strengthen the weak.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

Desperation, weakness, vulnerability - these things will always be exploited. You need to protect the weak, ring-fence them, with something far stronger than empathy.

I don't want to be the underdog. I don't want to be the poor guy, getting kicked around.

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Until all the powerful are just, the weak will be secure only in the strength of this assembly.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.