#worst

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#believes #best #counterproductive #demands #economics

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#base #both #conditions #dare #find

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#becoming #democratic #evidently #more #sense

The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed. ↗

— John Mortimer

#classes #fault #going #succeed #telling

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #died #disappeared #earliest #experience

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#best #even #evil #intolerable #necessary

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#blessing #even #every #evil #government

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#mankind #religion #tyrannies #tyranny #worst