Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents—a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?"

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

it’s well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as goo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone.
WALTER JON WILLIAMS

Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER

The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
SIDONIE GABRIELLE

A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.
CHINESE PROVERBS

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect...
DAVID EDDINGS

We expect Apple to broaden its use of Intel processors with the likely introduction of new low-end a...
KRISHNA SHANKAR

If you go to a store, but aren't exactly sure what you want or how to choose, it is becoming more an...
AMY ROBINSON

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.
HANNIBAL

Being a perfectionist has its faults at times because love can not be controlled, the universe surpr...
SAIDA HOSHI

we ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in eit...
PLUTARCH

We believe that the FDA's immediate concern level with the products is low and see black box as unli...
GRAHAM PARRY

You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world h...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledg...
SYDNEY J. HARRIS

What we are seeing is a relatively low level of unemployment claims.
JOHN LONSKI

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Consumers are likely to expect incentives such as low-interest financing for years to come.
CHRIS DENOVE

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
SIR JOHN MORTIMER

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, sayin...
JOHN MORTIMER

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. ....
BERTRAND RUSSELL

Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by th...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR

The earliest depiction of libertarian eugenics may have appeared in a science fiction novel, Robert ...
GREGORY BENFORD

Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues.
IBA EZRA

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not...
ELEANOR H. PORTER

[NSI officials] deny that it's their fault, ... But the fact is that if you pay [NSI], you are presu...
ALAN MECKLER

Only you could take one of my worst character faults and turn it into a virtue.
SUSAN ANDERSEN

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own...
NIGEL LAWSON

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other...
ELIZABETH GASKELL

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]
UNKNOWN

The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
JULIETTE LEWIS

The momentum usually gets to a fever pitch when the prices get high. You can bet that the members of...
KATERI CALLAHAN

There is a tendency today for some of our political leaders to blame their staff and civil servants....
TAN SRI RAMON NAVARATNAM

When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up
GARY HOPKINS

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.
CONFUCIUS

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults,...
SUDHIR KAKAR

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them
CONFUCIUS

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
ETHEL WATERS

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
ALAN PERLIS

Our initial reaction is that the shares are likely to tread water during what is likely to be a diff...
ADNAAN AHMAD

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

I always expect our play to stay at the same level or to get better. I never expect anything else be...
BRANDIE HOSKINS

I just want to make films that have enough of a budget to pull off high-level imagery but also have ...
NEILL BLOMKAMP

As an industry, you can live with a low-grade fever, but you cannot live with a cancer -- and that's...
JENNI ENGEBRETSEN

Part of the problem you have is that you don't have a dialogue between elected officials and the...
ELIZABETH EMKEN

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
DAVID LEE ROTH

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

When you concentrate much on the faults, you shall be at fault. When you always focus on the solutio...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ...
TED DEUTCH

We expect a balanced speech that reaffirms that a March hike is likely, but that subsequent moves ar...
DREW MATUS

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.
MATTHEW PRIOR

What men and women need is encouragement. . . . Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell h...
ELEANOR H. PORTER

I'm human, I feel, I understand. That's the highest level of love, is understanding - when y...
TRACY MORGAN

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
MARIO PUZO

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, an...
KOOL MOE DEE

If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent...
NATALIA VODIANOVA

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse....
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Today's Pew poll shows that Congressional legislation to repeal the military's ban enjoys unparallel...
C. DIXON OSBURN

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to b...
BLAISE PASCAL

A tiny little baby!' says Tam. 'People look at me like I'm an animal. People who don't know me judge...
JON RONSON

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they a...
LORD BYRON

Their reproductive potential is quite low and because of that the time it takes to increase their nu...
BARRY BRUCE

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to whi...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

City taxpayers and downtown office workers are incensed when told of free parking for Manpower execu...
CRAIG PETERSON

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two r...
STEVE MARABOLI

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed.
JOHN MORTIMER

The Canada we see in this report does not reflect the one we hold in our hearts, ... Canadians expec...
DAVID SUZUKI

The principal reason for the universe's poker face is that its constituents are far away. Stars ...
SETH SHOSTAK

Almost everyone talks about world peace. They expect that somehow peace is going to magically appear...
ABHIJIT NASKAR

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER

Oftentimes I felt ridiculous giving my seal of approval to what was in reality such a natural thing ...
WILLIAM SEARS

What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for its aboliti...
AMBROSE BIERCE

35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON

I hope to inspire you to recognize that your reason for existence is to pursue the things that excit...
MICHAEL SANDERS

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON

The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend ...
LADY CONSTANCE LYTTON

We are at a low. But I wouldn't say it's a low where we are tossing in the towel and giving up and s...
BOBBY JONES

The Scripture is inexhaustible—you can never get to the bottom of its depth. And that’s what you...
CHUCK MISSLER

Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE

Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents—a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?

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Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents—a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?

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