Meanness Quotes
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I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group
— Peggy McIntosh
Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition, meanness, indignity and ignorance.
— Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.
— Gautama Buddha
Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
— Abraham Lincoln
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the Devil was at his elbow
— Cormac McCarthy
Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls ... Even when they're being kind ... especially when they're being kind.
— Alice Munro
I know I'm mean to tell you these things, but he is much worse than I am. He has the worst kind of meanness, that of superficiality.
— Elena Ferrante
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
— William Hazlitt
About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.
— Harry S. Truman
I have a meanness inside of me, real as an organ.
— Gillian Flynn
A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness.
— Carson McCullers
I like that kind of thing. I like warmth and uncalled-for kindness, the small unnoticed generosities that speckle the meanness of the world.
— Roland Merullo
Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
— Sir Fulke Greville
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
— Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
I don't let negative attitudes and meanness from other people keep me from living my life.
— Ruby Gettinger
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
— James A. Garfield
To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.
— Peter Medawar
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
— Karl Kraus
When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.
— Will Rogers
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.
— William Hazlitt
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
— Dennis Prager
There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples.
— Alyssa Day
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.
— Lord Chesterfield
Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.
— Bryant McGill
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
— Cormac McCarthy
As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.
— Samuel Johnson
Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.
— Debasish Mridha
Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.
— George Gissing
There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on you. How could a guy live without meanness?
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.
— Malcolm Forbes
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Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
— Henry David Thoreau
The meanest thing to which we bid adieu, Loses its meanness in the parting hour.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
— James Martineau
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The devastation of his actions, his meanness, felt like bags of rancid trash heaped around him.
— Karen Kingsbury
Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
— Elizabeth Bear
Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.
— Sue Monk Kidd
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.
— Dennis Prager
Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.
— Carol Rifka Brunt
There are two distinct kinds of meanness - those which come of loving money and of disliking it. Mine was the latter sort.
— Evelyn Waugh
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
— Elbert Hubbard
I guess there's just a meanness in this world
— Bruce Springsteen
When someone express violence or meanness,don't hate him, win him with love and kindness. — Debasish Mridha
Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
— Charles Caleb Colton
There's no meanness too spiteful or too cruel, Didier once said to me, when we hate someone for all the wrong reasons.
— Gregory David Roberts
Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.
— Maya Soetoro-Ng
They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
— Bruce Springsteen
Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
— Walter Bagehot
A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.
— Charles Sumner
Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
— Edmund Burke
