#weaken

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life. ↗

— Voltaire

#every #gives #indeed #kills #letter

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me. ↗

— Charles Kettering

#bring #good #good news #me #news

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#armed men #army #change #collection #every

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#contaminate #countries #democracy #designed #ideas

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#strengthen #strong #weak #weakening #you

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#alcoholic #becomes #body #england #english

The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character. ↗

— Rene Cassin

#both #character #civil #concerning #considerably

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#because #child #constancy #could #fancied

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#everything #fact #mentally #outer #outer world

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#fertile #states #terrorism #turmoil #weakening