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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

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Plato

Thus it is that dignity finds its (firm) root in its (previous) meanness, and what is lofty finds its stability in the lowness (from which it rises). — Lao-Tzu

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

Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery. — P.N. Elrod

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

I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice. — Liesl Shurtliff

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. — George Sand

There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples. — Alyssa Day

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

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

Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings. — Beth Moore

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

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. — Mandy Hale

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with. — Muhammad Ali

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

he just accepted my dart of irritation, my pinch of meanness. — Harlem Dae

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

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

Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far. — Walter Kirn

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

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

Jealousy made you vulnerable. Meanness just made you an ice queen. — Katie Cotugno

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

If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside. — Phil Lester

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. — Gillian Flynn

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. — Ovid

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'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. — Andy Rooney

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

And while meanness is a function of the insensitive, grumpiness is merely a function of the dissatisfied. — Tom Robbins

Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a while. — Gene Stratton-Porter