Quotes About Flaws In Humanity

#1. Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo

#2. Perhaps we are yet to feel the full impact of the Y2K bug but so far it's been quiet.

Michael McGirr

#3. Don't let my flaws shatter your illusion, but see the depth of my humanity.

M.A. Levi

#4. One flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gretchen Rubin

#5. God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.

John N. Gray

#7. Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

Lord Chesterfield

#8. [In Baptism] [W]e didn't really die. We weren't really buried. We weren't really crucified and raised again. We imitated these symbolically - yet our salvation was a reality!

Scott Hahn

#9. In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

Rosemarie DeWitt

#10. Flaws reveal a lot about a character and who people are. The flawed elements of a character are where I find their humanity. Those are the things I tend to identify with - the weaknesses. I don't know why, but I identify with struggle more than with success.

Liev Schreiber

#11. I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.

Al Pacino

#12. She saw nothing of Winterborne during he days of her recovery: and perhaps on that account her fancy wove about him a more romantic tissue than it could have done if he had stood before her with all the specks and flaws inseparable from concrete humanity

Thomas Hardy

#13. I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

Nicolas Cage

#14. Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

C. Northcote Parkinson

#15. The only things flawless about me are my flaws.

Amanda Mosher

#16. Have compassion for your humanity and your flaws. You're human and you're going to make mistakes. Look at yourself through the eyes of a loving parent ...

Lauren Mackler

#17. Artists strive for perfection. But what they often fail to see is that the beauty, the humanity, lies within the flaws.

Elizabeth Isaacs

#18. Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#19. No such thing as humanity without flaws.

Hugo Ball

#20. Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature.

Nocturnus Libertus

#21. Because we only feed in the United States less than 1 per cent of the meals, most of them are eaten elsewhere. Most meals are eaten at home. So to make McDonald's the target is not going to solve the problem.

Jim Cantalupo

#22. We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.

William Shakespeare