"Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a……" — H. L. Mencken

More Abject Quotes

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• In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to… — Jean Baudrillard
• The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all… — Jean Baudrillard
• I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to… — Berkeley Breathed
• Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill. — John O. Brennan
• May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are… — Charles Darwin
• Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him… — Bertrand Russell
• I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or… — William Hazlitt
• Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. — Epictetus
• The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon… — George Washington
• Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'… — Thomas Carlyle
• If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over… — Henry A. Kissinger
• The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than… — Antony Flew

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