Defective Quotes · Page 3

This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a…

— Pope John Paul II

Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or…

— Noah Webster

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like…

— Phillip Lopate

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the…

— Thurgood Marshall

My children weary me. I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless.

— Evelyn Waugh

A newspaper is a mirror reflecting the public, a mirror more or less defective, but still a mirror.

— Arthur Brisbane

I will stop at nothing to reach my objective, but only because my brakes are defective.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior…

— Confucius

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power…

— Francis Parkman

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry…

— Thomas Jefferson

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a…

— Margaret Mead

“Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon…

— Maureen Brady

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the…

— Christopher Hitchens

Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope…

— John Piper

The evident character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud, and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

[In Mexico] they have a VAT tax. We're on a different system. When we sell into Mexico, there's a tax. When they…

— Donald Trump

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from…

— Ernest Hemingway

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

— W. Edwards Deming

It is for the State to take care that the economic conditions are such that the normal man who is not defective…

— Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that…

— Joanna Russ

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

— George Bernard Shaw

In all fairness to Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, when she started talking about this, it was really very recently. She's been doing this…

— Donald Trump