Meanness Quotes

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

Whoever did this just had to be full of meanness. Some people like to shoot stuff just for the thrill of killing things. - Gene Snow

When you're around people who look for the best in others, who get their thrills from bringing out the best in themselves - rather than people looking for the meanness in others - it brings out the best in you. - Karen Trusdale

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. - Will Rogers

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top. - Todd Solondz

What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. - Florence Nightingale

What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato

We are going to remold the track to take some of the meanness out of it. - Humpy Wheeler

There was love in what he did. There was kindness. There was no meanness in him. - Russell Johnson