Defects Quotes - Page 17

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

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Management, Highways

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• The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Privilege, Unfair, Members

  "Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order". August 07, 2013.

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Thinking

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.

  C. S. Lewis

  Son, Excess, Littles

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• A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Character, Years

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• ​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, Balance, Males

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• God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here’s part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Father, Stress

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.480, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, People, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Practice, Deceit

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• I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

  Tennessee Williams

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  Tennessee Williams, Albert J. Devlin (1986). “Conversations with Tennessee Williams”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Class, Labels

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Believe, Self, Discipline

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• Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Circles

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.56

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• I had to bite back a laugh. "Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." Chapter 12, pg 213

  Sylvia Day

  Character, Laughing, Loving You

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• I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Appreciation, Book, Writing

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• The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from becoming obsessive or grotesque. Although there have been zealots whom we may still regard as intellectuals, zealotry is a defect of the breed and not of the essence.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Essence, Ideas, Intellectual

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.29, Vintage

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• Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter.

  Maimonides

  Moving, Order, Casting Off

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain to expect to see living beings formed of the blood of menstruous women and the semen virile, who will not die, will never feel pain, or will move perpetually, or shine like the sun. This dictum of Galen is part of the following more general proposition: Whatever is formed of matter receives the most perfect form possible in that species of matter; in each individual case the defects are in accordance with that individual matter.

  Maimonides

  Pain, Moving, Book

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.436, Aeterna Press

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• If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

  David Hume

  Weed, Art, Revenge

  David Hume (1817). “Philosophical Essays: On Morals, Literature, and Politics”, p.166

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• One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inability, Helping, Life Is

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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• People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Tragedy, Virtue

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.214, Random House

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• As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

  William Cowper

  Ivy, Rotten, Stones

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 285

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