The great corrupter of public man is the ego….Looking at the mirror distracts ones attention from the problem. – Dean Acheson Category: Ego
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. – Christian Nevell Bovee Category: Ego
The People, though we think of a great entity when we use the word, means nothing more than so many millions of individual men. – James Bryce Category: Government
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on. – Robert Frost Category: Fight, Fighting
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning Category: Experience
