Meanness Quotes

Meanness Quote of the day

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable.

I have stood your meanness as long as I intend to. You have played the part of a damn scoundrel, and if you were any part of a man I would slap your jaws and force you to resent it.

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape our history.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.

There's some nastiness, there's some meanness there. There's something going on in the mosques and other places.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.