#prone

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barricade #coward #cowardice #desert #ego

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#doubt #how #prone #wise

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#awareness #becoming #immediate #implications #increasing

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection. ↗

— Richard von Weizsaecker

#inhumanity #new #prone #refuses #remember

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members. ↗

— Morris West

#institutions #members #prone #their #vices

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#himself #his #looking #man #mostly