John Paul Stapp Quotes

Nobody is completely perfect.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

We're such imperfect beings. I think that's more often the case than not.

No man, no woman is without their flaws.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how fallible we all are.

The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

Aren't all people flawed?

All of us are imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.

To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.

The problem with people is that they're only human.

any system, in which the final decisions are referred to human beings, and in which the source of all authority are human, is doomed to failure because it deifies human beings by designating others than God as lords over men.

The State Department is the kind of organization which though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.