There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people… — Mike Judge Copy Share Image
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection; but addressing itself entirely to the fancy or the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism.… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
My god, 'Vulgar Display Of Power' is still one of the greatest albums ever. — Ivan Moody Copy Share Image
The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
MUMMY, n. - an ancient Egyptian handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Primitivism has become the vulgar cliché of much modern art and speculation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
