Lowest Quotes

441 Lowest quotes by 361 unique authors

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work.… — Frances O'Grady
Wit is the lowest form of humor. — Alexander Pope
I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest… — Will Self
It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government… — Alan Shepard
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable… — Adam Smith
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its… — Gloria Steinem
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to… — Lawrence Summers
It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest… — John Sununu
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most… — James Surowiecki
Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league.… — J C Watts
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior. — John Oliver
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not… — Henry David Thoreau
Men impose deception on women and punish them for being deceived, force them down to the lowest level and punish them for falling so low,… — Nawal El Saadawi
Yet not for a single moment did I have any doubts about my own integrity and honour as a woman. I knew that my profession… — Nawal El Saadawi
What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of… — Elwyn Brooks White
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society!… — Victor Hugo
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over… — P.J. O'Rourke
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people… — Oscar Wilde
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. — Jim Morrison
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and… — Frank Herbert
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their… — Thomas Jefferson
Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest? — Victor Hugo
It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how… — Nelson Mandela
There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was… — Albert Camus

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