Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the…

We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

— Che Guevara

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

— Anonymous

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can…

— Jim Warner

The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of…

— Samuel Johnson

Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.

— W. Edwards Deming

Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal…

— Ali Sina

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do…

— Haruki Murakami

I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I…

— Edmonia Lewis

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

— Umberto Eco

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he…

— Philip Yancey

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.

— Robert Henri