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“Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.”

Self Individual Virtue Importance Faults Exaggerated Self-importance

Book:Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

Source: Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.”

Trying Political Lying Individual Politician Gains Blame Faults Greedy

Author:Pat Paulsen

“Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.”

Ifs Certain Individual Faults

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.”

Ifs Individual Rooms Pieces Broken Thousand Authority Institutions Faults Anything Goes

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians

“How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.”

Shows Individual Lost Blame Faults Tongue Explanation Misfortunes Loser Speculation Manliness Lost Money

Author:B. C. Forbes

“One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.”

People Should Country Political Evil Individual Leader Faults Deeds Regimes Innate

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.”

Ifs Certain Individual Existence Friends Faults Resent Old Friends

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe