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Anonymity breeds meanness.

I've met little meanness, wherever I went.

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

I guess there's just a meanness in this world

I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

Meanness demeans the demeaner far more than the demeaned.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

All traditions are also full of meanness for the sake of meanness.

We have taught our children that meanness gets you nowhere in life.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well.

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.

I read the rumors, and I know there is a cottage industry of meanness out there.

What often seemed like meanness or coldness was really fear of emotions and intimacy.

Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

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

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

There`s some nastiness, there`s some meanness there. There`s something going on in the mosques and other places.

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

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

Twitter is an open forum and it brings the meanness in people. It shouldn't be taken seriously as at times it's a sadistic thing.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts.

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.

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust.

You're not going to beat the meanness out of a mean dog. You start beating a mean dog, it's gonna become more mean. You start beating racists, they're gonna become more racist.

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.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

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.

We live in a culture where everyone's opinion, view, and assessment of situations and people spill across social media, a lot of it anonymously, much of it shaped by mindless meanness and ignorance.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

Our line of work is very cynical, and a lot of it is driven by cynicism, cruelty, and meanness. It's easier to believe the negative stuff than the positive stuff. The feel-good stories don't usually spend a lot of time on the front pages.

Like the Earth, the Web is a less appealing place than it used to be. If I want attitude and arguing and meanness and profanity and wrong information screamed at me as gospel, I'll get in a time machine and spend Christmas with my family in 1977.

It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

The threat posed by Bank of America isn't just financial - it's a full-blown assault on the American dream. Where's the incentive to play fair and do well, when what we see rewarded at the highest levels of society is failure, stupidity, incompetence and meanness? If this is what winning in our system looks like, who doesn't want to be a loser?

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