Feebleness Quotes

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.

In the policy of nations there are two extremes: one extreme, in which justice and moderation may sink in feebleness; another, in which the lofty spirit which ought to animate all nations, particularly free ones, may mount up to military violence. These extremes ought to be equally avoided; but of the two, I consider the first far more dangerous.

Skinniness is a new fashion. It reflects an obsession with youth, a suggestion of pre-adolescence when a female's fertility can be dominated. It implies vulnerability, feebleness and fragility.

The chief cause of our misery is less the violence of our passions than the feebleness of our virtues.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

What is failure except feebleness? And what is it to miss one's mark except to aim widely and weakly?

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.

Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness and good-for-nothingness of the entire community?

If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.