#unfit

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth. ↗

— James Allen

#cannot #endure #errors #hide #highway

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#community #competent #contradiction #direct #habits

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#examined #had #i #military #military service

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #his #leaves #man #nature

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. ↗

— Lord Acton

#class #danger #every #govern #particular

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#curiously #earth #fate #good #many

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#democratic #democratic societies #habit #i #i am

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government. ↗

— George Washington

#left #mankind #own #their #themselves

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#apparently #doing #duty #else #unfitted

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. ↗

— James Mcneill Whistler

#great #incomplete #labour #often #picture