Defects Quote by Henry Becque Download Open image “The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.” — Henry Becque ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defects Desire Equality Inspirational Superiors
When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it. — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors. — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If we want equality, we shouldn't then expect to be praised just because we're doing a certain job. That's not equality. — Kathy Burke Copy Share Image
Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order. — Richard Weaver Copy Share Image
It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share
Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Equality is a myth to protect the weak. some of us are strong in the Force, others are not. Only a fool believes otherwise. — Drew Karpyshyn Copy Share Image
Men know so little about us women. We've a weakness, it is true, for those who charm us, but we always come back to… — Henry Becque Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa9/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_the-sense-of-tragedy-according-to-aristo_23796.jpg)
