Basest Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable… — Erich Fromm
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature. — James Bryce
He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no… — William Faulkner
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the… — Frederick Douglass
Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
A better politics is one where we appeal to each otherâ€™s basic decency instead of our basest fears. — Barack Obama
Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best… — Mahatma Gandhi
Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God is slapped on the face… — Symeon the New Theologian
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by… — Arthur Schopenhauer
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of… — William Shakespeare
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. — William Faulkner
This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us… — John Green
I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to me in artful shapes and… — Ian Mcewan
Poor Paddy of all Christian men I think On basest food pours down the vilest drink. — William Allingham
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things… — William Faulkner
Can you? Can you get out that much red? Vanko, Tugenov, Romanoff...Barton told me everything. Your ledger is dripping, it's gushing red, and you think… — The Avengers

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14 authors contributed a total of 16 Basest Quotes as follows: