Schwächung / Weakening Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Schwächung / Weakening:

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments. Jacques Delors

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.

William Collins

Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity.

Jean Charest

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Barney Frank

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Robert D. Kaplan

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

Jill Lepore

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

Andre Maurois

This weakening is worsened by the widening distance between the governed and their governments.

Jacques Delors

Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

Jack Kingston

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

Jim Jeffords

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

William J. H. Boetcker

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

Zebulon Pike

The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power.

Bianca Jagger

Two decisions have damaged the stability both of the euro and of Europe: the premature admission of Greece to the euro area and the breach and subsequent weakening of the stability and growth pact.

Helmut Kohl

Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.

Joseph Stiglitz

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

Aristide Briand

I don't think it's at all weakening of the system if people with the same last name put themselves forward to the electorate, when their experiences, their character, and in my case, gender, may be different.

Hillary Clinton

You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Paul Cezanne

Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

H. P. Lovecraft

Throughout the 1990s, Israel and the United States devoted vast resources to weakening the nuclear links between Russia and Iran and applied enormous diplomatic pressure on Russia to cut off the relationship.

Ronen Bergman

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.

Lady Gregory

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

Naomi Wolf