#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. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

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

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#matrimony #meanness #union

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

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

Я мальчик, господин Биркенштакк... На мужчин я насмотрелся в эти дни, ну их к чёрту. Они и предать могут, и убить беззащитного. Слава Хранителям, я ещё ни в чём таком не замешан. И нечего меня сравнивать с мужчинами... Тоже мне похвала... (Галиен Тукк - советнику Биркенштакку) ↗

— Vladislav Krapivin

#men #people #men

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