#meanness

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#always #detest #egotism #failure #feeling

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

#insanity #life #love #meanness #misery

Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#genius #meanness #mediocrity #poetry #funny

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

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

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) ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#hurt #mean #meanness #louisa-may-alcott

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. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#capable #down #find #i #kind

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

#give #guard #hesitation #how #kindness

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#i #lifetime #lot #meanness #observing

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#echo #leftists #meanness #right #those