Betrayal Quote by Wilhelm II

If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

— George Sand

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

— Anonymous

“With the Russian Empire teetering on the brink of collapse, the tsarist regime responded to the crises with its usual incompetence and obstinacy. The…

— Orlando Figes

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God…

— John Milton

“Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.”

— Barbara Tuchman

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.”

— Orlando Figes

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“He usually shrank from extreme measures. Mirkovitch’s bloodthirsty speeches grated upon his nerves, and having spent a miracle of ingenuity in combining some deadly…

— Emmuska Orczy

“Weakness begets evil”

— Jo Goodman