To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind. — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able… — Elizabeth Bear Copy Share Image
“The more capable people are of inflicting pain, the deeper, more buried they are in illusion and fear.” — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
Children who wish to become good and great men or good and noble women, should try to know well all the people… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am not here to pass civilities or compliments with you, but on other business. I have stood your meanness as long… — Nathan Bedford Forrest Copy Share Image
There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies. — Mark Twain 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
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“The Dark Cloud Is the criticism you face because you don’t want to kiss ass Is the rage you experience when people… — Aida Mandic 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
All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness. — George Saunders 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
Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one who’s generous spirit,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There were times when I asked myself whether I was being principled or simply a coward.... I was wrapped in the cocoon… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance,… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
