To judge a man merely by success is an abhorrent wrong; and if the people at large habitually so judge men, if they grow to condone wickedness because the wicked man triumphs, they show their inability to understand that in the last analysis free institutions rest upon the character of citizenship, and that by such admiration of evil they prove themselves unfit for liberty.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality, Life & Society, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior
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