Capable Quote by Laurence Sterne

One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man…

— Charles M. Blow

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments…

— Jane Porter

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“People can be cruel, deadly, heartless, selfish, disrespectful. They can be vice-ridden and lack any basic empathy toward their fellow man.”

— Carrie Lofty

“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that person, who…

— Ehsan Sehgal

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

— Walter Bagehot

Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as…

— Leo Tolstoy

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

— Charles Dickens

“However little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite. To be…

— Anne Brontë

Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven…

— William Hazlitt