36 Quotes About Meanness

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

Spies are, by nature and necessity, pathological liars who strive to make their endgames justify their meanness.

No one ever did anything mean to anyone else yet save for their good, and so it will be until the end of this frail planet."The Staircase

I didn't think meanness was ever in anyone's destiny. Meanness was a choice.

I seriously wish that he had spent his entire childhood being serially arse-raped by teachers, scoutmasters, members of the clergy, relatives, policemen, doctors, door-to-door salesmen and all registered sex offenders within a 500-mile radius of his unprotected bedroom.

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

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing.

We are going to remold the track to take some of the meanness out of it.