Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group — Peggy McIntosh Copy Share Image
Maybe she is mean because her heart has been broken so many times that her meanness protects her from being hurt again. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there. — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
“Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy. — Bob Colacello 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot… — Jeannette Walls 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
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
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
Strangely, meanness pays more than offering constructive and interesting commentary. Every season I think, "This is the last season. I'm not gonna… — Nicolas Ghesquiere Copy Share Image
You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak… — Amy Tan 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
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
“And don’t say, “Now I can pay them back for all their meanness to me! I’ll get even!” — Al Fike Copy Share Image
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Material means that hide man's meanness fail to reflect his moral richness.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
