Quotes About Human frailty

Gregory of Nazianus taught around AD 370: "The responsibility of pastoral office is great indeed, and no one ought to enter who has not deeply examined motive and ability, who has not struggled against call in the face of godly demands of office and the frailty of mere humanity.

Yet however grotesque Stalinism may seem in retrospect, it also represented an heroic attempt to break the bonds of structural economic backwardness. And its failure stemmed as much from human frailty and folly and from the sheer weight of the problems bequeathed by the past, as from any moral flaws in the Stalinist vision.

The revelation that he was merely human, and frightfully so, was beyond my power to forgive.

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Akhirnya manusia ini mati juga. Mati. Sakit.

A little old lady once said to me, 'I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.

We salt our lives with other people's sins.

Why, we're just petty insects, all of us, fighting on a pinhead planet.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

Na kraju - kažem na kraju, a trebalo je da pro?u godine patnji, rastanaka, raskida - uvideli smo da su nam životi vezani zauvek i da svojim slabim ljudskim snagama ne možemo ništa ni protiv svoje ljubavi ni protiv prepreka koje joj stoje na putu.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

the nobility of what humans could be capable of, if only they weren't human.

People are leaky.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

I believe it is entirely possible for a man to possess not a single one of the virtues, to be a demon in human flesh.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Fishing is a constant reminder of the democracy of life, of humility, and of human frailty. The forces of nature discriminate for no man.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

The most durable monument of human labor is that which recalls the wretchedness and nothingness of man.

We men are wretched things.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.