Famous quotes containing the words virtue and/or system:
“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person’s self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient’s cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)