Debility Quotes

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. (Emil Cioran)
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. View quote
Christopher Lasch
How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it - that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility. View quote
Josiah Gilbert Holland
There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. Debility is gradually converted into strength, disease into healthfulness: madness, in all its hideous variety, from the ravings of the fettered maniac, to the unaccountable irrationalities of ill-temper, that make a hell of domestic life, into a calm and considerable evenness of temper, that alone might offer a certain pledge of the future moral reformation of society. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility. View quote
Ambrose Bierce