5,159 Quotes About Mean

Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]

Do your squats eat, your vegetables, wear red lipstick, [and] don't let boys be mean to you.

If the message has been needed or something isn't getting done right we would reinforce it and that's what we did. Just because it's provincials doesn't mean that's going to change. So we've done that before.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.

So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

it is just as wrong, or even perhaps more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.