#vulgar

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. ↗

— Orson Welles

#anything #i #i do #just #money

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#avoided #convincing #often #vulgar

[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

#lyrics #vulgarity #censorship

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause. ↗

— Rudolf Bing

#cannot #disapproval #express #expressions #level

Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#affairs #business #daily #obscene #papers

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#crude #extinguish #humor #knowledge #known

A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#corrected #distinction #distinctions #doubt #entitled

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#herd #start #us #vulgar #which

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#insipid #rarest #seems #taste #vintage

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ↗

— Socrates

#conception #emotional #illusion #mere #morality