“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.""And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.”

“Women believe that men are, in a sense, defective versions of women, Men believe that women are defective versions of men. Both genders are trapped in adelusion that their personal viewpoints are universal. That viewpoint—that each gender is a defective version of theother—is the root of all misunderstandings.”

“Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.”

“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.”

“I can see that an insufficent, or perhaps even defective, socialization process has led you to believe that four-letter words add power to languauge”