“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.” — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The true measure of a man is not at his kindest, but his meanest. Meanness cannot be faked. — Majdi Rabah Copy Share Image
“Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We can easily forgive want of means; but littleness, with means, is disgusting. — Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles Copy Share Image
“That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made… — Susie Finkbeiner Copy Share Image
The moment we begin tolerating meanness, in ourselves and others, we are using our authorial power in the service of wrongdoing. We… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If a person had accused him of meanness, he could have defended himself. But with a dog - you did something cheap… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to… — P.N. Elrod Copy Share Image
You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a… — William Jones Copy Share Image
“Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is very seldom that one encounters what would appear to be sheer unadulterated evil in a human face; an evil, I… — Walter de la Mare Copy Share Image
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I have made up my mind to say my say. I shall do it kindly, distinctly; but I am going to do… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Boy, that was mean, even by my standards," Maysilee says to me. "You can't choose your parents." "You could reject their business,"… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
