#meanness

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

#cool #die #fire #high-spirited #indeed

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

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

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-loving #grace #helping-people #high-school #kind-women

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#conquest #hard #impact #meanness #military

The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony. ↗

— James Taranto

#jerks #meanness #nastiness #sanctimony #the-guardian

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