Faults Quotes - Page 38

• When you're the leader, everything is your fault.

  Terry Goodkind

  Leader

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Faith Of The Fallen”, p.21, Head of Zeus

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• The crisis in Ukraine is all the European Union's fault. Its leaders negotiated a trade deal with Ukraine, which essentially blackmailed the country to choose between Europe and Russia.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Russia, Ukraine

  "​Crisis in Ukraine is ‘all EU’s fault’ – France’s Marine Le Pen". www.rt.com. September 6, 2014.

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• The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.

  Chris Hedges

  Inability, Pathology, Rulers

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• You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, Dark, Light

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• You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Vision, President

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• It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us.

  Alexander Pope

  Overcoming, Advantage

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.378

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• When we try to avoid one fault, we are led to the opposite, unless we be very careful.

  Horace

  Opposites, Trying, Careful

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• Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

  William Feather

  Giving, Feelings, Superiority

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• I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

  E. W. Howe

  Men, Average, Long

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• I have not hated the man, but his faults.

  Martial

  Men, He Man, Hated

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• In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Quality, Please, Intercourse

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• The basic fault lines today are not between people with different beliefs but between people who hold these beliefs with an element of uncertainty and people who hold these beliefs with a pretense of certitude

  Peter L. Berger

  People, Lines, Today

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• Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

  Robert Graves

  Art, Goodwill, Lack Of Knowledge

  Robert Graves (2006). “The Long Weekend : a Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939: And, The Reader Over Your Shoulder : a Handbook for Writers of English Prose”, Carcanet Press

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• It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Powerful, War, Civilization

  "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.

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• Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

  Edward Kennedy

  Giving, Common, No Excuses

  "Transcript of Ted Kennedy's Funeral Service" by The Kennedy Family, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2009.

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• The bells which toll for mankind are - most of them, anyway - like the bells of Alpine cattle; they are attached to our own necks, and it must be our fault if they do not make a cheerful and harmonious sound.

  Peter Medawar

  Cheerful, Bells, Necks

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• Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man.

  David Herbert Donald

  Moving, Warrior, Men

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• A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.

  Barbara Cartland

  Love, Women, Wife

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• Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world.

  Marilyn Manson

  World, Enjoy

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• My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Flower, Land, Youth

  Daniel O'Connell (1854). “The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M. P.”, p.81

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• With your faults, dont hurry. Dont correct them thoughtlessly. What would you put in their place?

  Henri Michaux

  Henri Michaux (1997). “Tent Posts”, Green Integer Books

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• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Character, Light

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• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

  Christian D. Larson

  Mistake, Giving, Desire

  Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.393, Penguin

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• A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn't want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.

  Barbara Cartland

  Marriage, Husband, Women

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• His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

  Unknown

  Lying, Believe, People

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