“There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.”
Source: Mercy Among the Children
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David Adams Richards1
Canadian writer and politician 1950Related quotes
Charles James Fox (1749–1806) British Whig statesman
Letter to Edmund Burke (24 January 1779), quoted in L. G. Mitchell, Charles James Fox (London: Penguin, 1997), p. 41.
1770s
“Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.”
Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist
" Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ faith https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/jesus-n-mo-n-faith-3/" September 14, 2016
“The flaw in the work is the flaw in the man.”
Mark Riebling (1963) American writer
His Long War: E Howard Hunt's American Spy (2007)
“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
Dan Brown book Angels & Demons
Source: Angels & Demons
Robert A. Heinlein book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1966)
Source: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
“Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.”
Aiden Wilson Tozer (1897–1963) American missionary
Source: The Root of the Righteous (1955), p. 116.
“Worse than sin against God is sin against man.”
Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778) Muslim Scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 29