“Only great men have great faults.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands défauts.
Maxim 190.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“The fault is in the system and not in the men.”
see W Edwards Deming "Blame the process, not the people."
Source: 1960s - 1980s, MANAGEMENT: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1973), Part 1, p. 140
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Andrew Tobias (1947) American journalist
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 10, Too Many Lawyers, p. 172.
“It is not society's fault that most men seem to miss their vocation. Most men have no vocation.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. II, Reason in Society, Ch. IV: The Aristocratic Ideal
“Men have been Laughed out of Faults which a Sermon could not reform.”
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) (1694–1746) Irish philosopher
The Dublin Weekly Journal, No. 12 (June 19, 1725)
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: One is A Crowd: Reflections of An Individualist (1952), p. 34
“Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"Eighth Air Force," lines 16-20
Losses (1948)
Context: For this last savior, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.
Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher
Life of Marcus Cato
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Magnam habet cordis tranquillitatem, qui nec laudes curat, nec vituperia. — Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (ca. 1418), book II, ch. VI, paragraph 2.
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