The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
PsychologyHuman natureSelf worthSelf perceptionFlawsJudgment
Sometimes criticism of others is warranted regardless of self-view.
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep peop…
Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer is to the whole - the church, party, …
The frustrated follow a leader less because of their faith that he is leading them to a promised land than because of their immediate feeling that he is leadin…
Commonly we say a judgement falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.
L'amour-propre est le plus grand de tous les flatteurs.
Of all things, good sense is the most fairly distributed: everyone thinks he is so well supplied with it that even those who are the hardest to satisfy in ever…