Quotes about Meanness

To live a remote, retired, secluded life is the antipodes of spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it. The test of our spirituality comes when we come up against injustice and meanness and ingratitude and turmoil, all of which have the tendency to make us spiritual sluggards.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed.

Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings.

Lord! Lord! thar's such a sight of meanness in this here world that it makes a body b'lieve in Providence whether or no.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.