Defects Quotes - Page 19

• Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, World, Speech

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.392, Stanford University Press

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• The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Work, Pride, Humanity

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• The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Political, Dreamer

  Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.409, Northwestern University Press

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• To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, Ifs

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Home, Heart, America

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• As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

  Julius Caesar

  Confidence, Fear, Unusual

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• The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the province ofwoman: the desire to please, facility to express emotions and hide defects, and the faculty of assimilation which is the real essence of woman.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Art, Real, Essence

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Years, People, Quality

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• If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
  I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham.
  Each little fault of temper and each social defect
  In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Giving, Attention, Erring

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.537, Oxford University Press

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• Zero defects is a super highway going down the tube.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Management, Highways

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• No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Character, Giving, Advice

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• There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Breeding, Observation, Politeness

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.179

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• We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Criticism, Way, Use

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• None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Greatness, Flaws

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• A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Power, Stupidity, Mind

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• The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

  Aristotle

  Laughter, Pain, Doe

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• Uranium mining in northern Canada has left over 120 million tons of radioactive waste. This amount represents enough material to cover the Trans-Canada Highway two meters deep across the country. Present production of uranium waste from Saskatchewan alone occurs at the rate of over 1 million tons annually. Since 1975, hospitalization for cancer, birth defects and circulatory illnesses in that area have increased dramatically - between 123 and 600 percent in that region.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Cancer, Birth Defects

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• What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

  Curtis Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Role Models

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• To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Mean, Circles

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?

  Ali Sina

  Country, Lying, Mean

  Source: myislam.dk

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• I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

  Curtis Jackson

  Character, Thinking, Role Models

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• Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Moles, Opponents

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• A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Weed, Lying, Inward

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• This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith, Heart, People

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.91, Vivekananda Kendra

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