To acknowledge a pattern of repeatedly breaking, of in fact never failing to break, would have meant acknowledging our powerlessness, admitting we could never act righteously.
And maybe that's why we don't have any good leaders anymore, because they had integrity and they didn't put, you know, the survival of the institution first.
There is this idea that if you change your mind that means you're not being consistent and you're not being like integrity, like or whatever the thing is people used to describe this.
I remember all, even words that were lightly uttered, —words by which a man less conscientious than I, with a heart less youthful and less upright, would scarcely feel himself bound.
They cared because it confirmed a suspicion that they had about her, an unfair suspicion in my view, but a suspicion that she was crooked and trying to hide things, right?
Like, I think we as women attach meaning, I'm not saying the guy's not lovely and not upstanding and all these things, but we get emotionally attached quicker and more than men do.
After King Wu of Zhou the throne was handed down through eight generations until it reached King Yi, a man who was neither sober nor correct, and the feudal lords gradually became strong.
I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. None of them repent of their wickedness, saying, " What have I done" ? Each pursues their own course like a horse charging into battle.