The abject pleasure of an abject mind And hence so dear to…

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

— Juvenal

Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.

— H. Beam Piper

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

— William Cowper

What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of…

— Paul Wellstone

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

— Lord Acton

Without entrepreneurs, economies become poor and weak. The old will not exist, the new can't enter

— Lester Thurow

The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a little moldy. It molds like a beautiful blue cheese in the…

— Marge Piercy

“Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the damage you…

— Dan Pearce

“That was a day that taught me the meaning of abject failure.”

— Walter Moers

Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful…

— Jean Baudrillard

He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.

— Thomas a Kempis

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

— Kirk Douglas

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who…

— Katherine Boo

“‎"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven" ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to…

— Madison Smartt Bell