Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. — Dennis Prager 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
Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The cruelty and the meanness, that's why I'm not, I don't have a social media account that's public. — Ashley Biden Copy Share Image
I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life. — Ruby Gettinger Copy Share Image
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness. — Anonymous 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
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
“When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead… or any other "mis"… to others, they’re obviously missing something from their lives.” — Donald L. Hicks Copy Share Image
Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of… — Viscount Henry St. John Bolingbroke Copy Share Image
I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“and anyway it’s just the same old story -- a few people just trying, one way or another, to survive. Mostly, I… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I think the fear of being seen as childish or crazy severely limits our enjoyment of the world around us, thus inducing… — D. Patrick Miller Copy Share Image
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
“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
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
“Why, over the past two decades, have we seen this epidemic of loneliness and meanness, this breakdown in the social fabric? We… — David Brooks 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
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image