Quotes with meanness

  • Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
  • Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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  • Walter Bagehot Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Karl Kraus Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bertrand Russell 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.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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