"A political career brings out the basest qualities……" — James Bryce

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• The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind… — Erich Fromm
• He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that,… — William Faulkner
• For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them… — Frederick Douglass
• Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr
• A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’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… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Tremble with awe, O men! The insults God suffered for the sake of our salvation you too must endure! God… — Symeon the New Theologian
• That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches… — 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… — John Green
• I was the basest of readers. All I wanted was my own world, and myself in it, given back to… — Ian Mcewan

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