Quotes by Meanness I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness. Aleksandar Hemon meanness envy criticize Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. Aristotle meanness anger age What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy. Bob Colacello meanness intimacy emotion I guess there's just a meanness in this world Bruce Springsteen meanness this-world world A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. Charles Sumner meanness nations mean Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away. Cormac McCarthy gone-away meanness sun Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right. Dennis Prager meanness leftists echoes All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness. George Saunders meanness tradition sake There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. George Santayana meanness ideals stupidity There`s some nastiness, there`s some meanness there. There`s something going on in the mosques and other places. Donald Trump nastiness meanness mosques About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well. Harry S. Truman meanness men mean There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. James A. Garfield meanness mean We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. James Martineau suffrage meanness selfishness Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned. Malcolm Forbes meanness anger Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it. Maya Soetoro-Ng rare-occasion meanness upset I've met little meanness, wherever I went. Reynolds Price meanness mets littles An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Samuel Johnson cruelty meanness characteristics Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness. Sir Fulke Greville meanness generosity ill I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness. William Hazlitt meanness proud class The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference. William Makepeace Thackeray meanness equality differences 12»