Baseness Quotes
30 quotes by 28 authors
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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea…
— Leon Trotsky
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There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not…
— Simone Weil
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it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.
— Robert Musil
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no…
— John Barth
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy…
— Thomas Carlyle
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No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due…
— Josiah Royce
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of…
— James Russell Lowell
Who Wrote These Baseness Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 30 Baseness Quotes, led by these top contributors: