Baseness Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. — Georg Brandes
Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear… — Epictetus
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go… — Seneca the Younger
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran
... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if I… — Christer Kihlman
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt
I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average are not worth much anywhere,… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that… — George Gissing
I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and… — Mark Twain
Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There… — John Walford
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules de Goncourt
Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and… — Herbert Spencer
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task… — Theodore Roosevelt
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. — Madame de Stael
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of… — Bryant H. McGill
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. — Henry Miller
National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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