5,159 Quotes About Mean

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

The old restriction meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion. Modern liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it. Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest have failed.

Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.