What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
Interpretation
The weak find comfort in knowing that their struggles are shared by others.
This quote reflects the idea that people who feel weak or vulnerable often seek reassurance in the knowledge that their experiences, struggles, and weaknesses are universal. It suggests that understanding that we are not alone in our hardships can provide a sense of strength and solidarity, fostering a connection among those who may feel isolated in their challenges.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a support group meeting to highlight the importance of community.
Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Scientists have power by virtue of the respect commanded by the discipline... We live with poets and politicians, preachers and philosophers. All have their ways of knowing, and all are valid in their proper domain. The world is too complex and interesting for one way to hold all the answers.
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?
The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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