“We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.” MindHumansMatterReasonRealityValuesJusticeWeaknessAspectAppearanceMannersHuman MindBiasSuperficialDisagreeableExteriorGildedBad Manners Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.” MenShowsWomenJusticeWeaknessRegardContraryReasoningFacultyUnfortunateInferiors Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“The great have private feelings of their own, to which the interests of humanity and justice must curtsy. Their interests are so far from being the same as those of the community, that they are in direct and necessary opposition to them; their power is at the expense of OUR weakness; their riches of OUR poverty; their pride of OUR degradation; their splendour of OUR wretchedness; their tyranny of OUR servitude.” FeelingsHumanityInterestCommunityJusticePovertyPrideWeaknessDirectRichesTyrannyOppositionExpensesDegradationServitudeWretchednessSplendour Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)
“I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.” MayJusticeCompassionVirtueWeaknessVices Author:Ben Jonson
“To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries: weakness, imbecility, dependence, masochism, unreliability, and a certain "babydoll" sexuality that is actually only a projection of male dreams. To the "feminist" of both sexes, femininity is synonymous with the eternal female principle, connoting strength, integrity, wisdom, justice, dependability, and a psychic power foreign and therefore dangerous to the plodding masculists of both sexes.” MenDreamPastCertainSexJusticePrinciplesCenturyDangerousIntegrityEternalWeaknessBuiltFemaleMalesFeministSexualityDependencePsychicsFemininityProjectionMasochismImbecilityDependabilityUnreliability Author:Elizabeth Gould Davis
“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.” PeopleIfsMenTryingLittlesCertainWishJusticeGraceWeaknessGainsAffectionMeritDominant Author:Lord Chesterfield
“A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.” HumansDoeGovernmentLawLife IsJusticeCitizensProtectWeaknessWeakAdministrationHuman LifeInsecureViciousOutrageDeficiency Author:Frances Harper
“We like to say that India has the advantage of being a large market. We have provinces, we have the rule of law, we have a system of justice. But those are also weaknesses when compared with China. On the other hand, one of our strengths is that we are very individualistic, and as individuals we are very creative. But that, too, is a weakness, because it keeps us from working well together. Everyone thinks only about his own profit.” ThinkingWellsHandsTogetherLawIndividualJusticeCreativeWeaknessAdvantageIndiaProfitChinaRule Of LawProvincesIndividualistic Author:Ratan Tata
“The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never to suspect that our judgments judge us, and that nothing exposes our weaknesses and reveals ourselves more naively than the attitude of pronouncing upon our neighbors.” MadeJusticeAttitudeJudgingAuthorityJudgmentWeaknessNeighborRidiculousSuspectsTribes Author:Paul Valery
“Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.” MeanUnderstandingJusticePrideWeaknessGenerositySelfishnessBullyingIntoleranceEgotismIrresponsibleFirmnessHarshness Author:Omar N. Bradley