Quotes with baseness

  • Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

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  • Bryant H. McGill Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • James Russell Lowell In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Leon Trotsky Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Milan Kundera Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Henry Miller When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Simone Weil There can be a true grandeur in any degree of submissiveness, because it springs from loyalty to the laws and to an oath, and not from baseness of soul.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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