Feeble Quotes

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I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions. — Rivka Galchen
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control… — S. T. Joshi
The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious. — Luc de Clapiers
We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.… — George Eliot
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. — Edward Abbey
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,… — Thomas Jefferson
A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill… — Alexander Hamilton
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent… — Margaret Sanger
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the… — Margaret Sanger
There is only one reply to a request for a higher birthrate among the intelligent, and that is to ask the government to first take… — Margaret Sanger
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. — Margaret Sanger
The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped. — Margaret Sanger
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet. — George Henry Lewes
What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from… — Richard Sibbes
Why should not a writer be permitted to make use of the levers of fear, terror and horror because some feeble soul here and there… — E T A Hoffmann
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so… — Orison Swett Marden
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Woman's Rights with… — Queen Victoria
For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy… — Corliss Lamont
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses… — Jonathan Mayhew

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