Quotes: Vulnerability

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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.

Susan Sontag

American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist (1933-2004)

Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.

Aly Khan

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Todd Gitlin

American sociologist (1943-2022)

We need to have a strong defense focused on areas that are in the greatest vulnerability. I have been very concerned about America’s 361 seaports as a point in which terrorist activities and materials could be brought into the country.

Bob Graham

American lawyer, author, and politician (1936-2024)

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don’t expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they’re surprised.

Faye Dunaway

American actress

There’s a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

Rachel Hunter

New Zealand model and actress

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

Jurgen Habermas

German sociologist and philosopher (born 1929)

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

M. Scott Peck

It’s the first villain that I’ve played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she’s so bad.

Daryl Hannah

American actress and environmental activist

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

Shemar Moore

American actor

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