#worst

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artist #committed #fulfillment #him #his

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 suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their memories. And the rest of us will always remember where we were when we heard that London had been hit by the worst terrorist attack in its history. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#attack #been #bombers #had #heard

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#cycle #deep #democracy #drop #elections

But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. ↗

— Knute Nelson

#bayonet #cannon #city #damage #government

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

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#being #being misunderstood #misunderstood #poet #through

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. ↗

— John Sterling

#better #education #else #everything #self-denial

The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#man #tragedy #uses #war #worst