Vulnerable Quotes - 2
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[She] has several skins fewer than any other human being?a kind of psychological haemophilia, which is one reason why she writes so well, and why she is so vulnerable.
Charles Curran— Of his friend and fellow journalist, Rebecca West. Quoted by V S Pritchett in the NewYorker, 21 Dec1987.
I fully realize that every promise I make, the Republicans will double and the Democrats will redouble. They think this will make me vulnerable, but they don’t know I have some tricks up my sleeve, along with a box of raisins to munch on while I’m waiting for the returns to come in.
gracie allen— Ch. 5 : Issues and how to pick them
Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.
joel bakan— Chapter 1, The Corporation's Rise To Dominance, p. 25
In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques."
mark kurlansky— The Basque History of the World (1999)
This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
jack layton— On the 2009 federal budget, Jan. 27, 2009.
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.
timothy leary— How to Operate Your Brain (1994), a guided meditation spoken by Timothy Leary and set to music.
We will miss her energy and her respectful concern for the world's most vulnerable.
miriam makeba— Jacques Diouf, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations quoted in Jacobson et all. (10 November 2008)
I've sort of gotten into the habit of looking for the vulnerable guy, the guy who makes mistakes, the guy who can't figure things out all the time but keeps at it.
james (jimmy) stewart— On roles he looks for, as quoted in "Hollywood legend Jimmy Stewart dead at 89" at CNN (2 July 1997)
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution…. There should be, therefore, great resistance to … redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental. Otherwise, the Judiciary necessarily takes to itself further authority to govern the country without express constitutional authority.
byron white— Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986).
What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable.
jiddu krishnamurti— Talks in Europe 1968
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and the courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria Steinem— "Sisterhood" in New York Magazine (20 December 1971), p. 49
Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable. Speak out in order to judge with righteousness and to defend the needy and the poor.
— Proverbs 31:8-10 (CEB)
A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
— Address to a new ambassador of New Zealand to the Holy See, 25 May 2000
— Source: Libreria Editrice Vaticana
Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
Jojo Moyes— "The Girl You Left Behind" (2013)
We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool , and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.
— Jacques Casanova De Seingalt, in Childhood, p.49
For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.
ellen willis— "Dreaming of War," The Nation (15 October 2001)
The public takes care of their fear by thinking only crazies and stupid people wind up in cults. I've interviewed over 4000 ex-cult members. There's no one type of person who is vulnerable.
— The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1997, as cited in Margaret Thaler Singer, The Lancet, January 31, 2004
A rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the fluid, uncertain, metamorphic picture I've always carried about is rather more vulnerable.
— Salman Rushdie Address at Columbia University (1991)
A landing on a foreign coast in the face of hostile troops has always been one of the most difficult operations of war. It has now become much more difficult , almost impossible, because of the vulnerable target which a convoy of transports offers to the defenders’ air force. Even more vulnerable is the process of disembarkation in open boats.
— British military writer Captain B. H. Liddell Hart, in The Defense of Britain (1939).
