Quotes about Mean

For if this commission is behind us in Christian work, remember, always we are sent out to be exceptional in ordinary things, among sometimes mean people, in frequently sordid surroundings. Only the man sent by the King of kings could take that, and only the man with a true burden will ever accept it.

In very deed, pestilence, and famine, and wars, and earthquakes have to be regarded as a remedy for nations, as the means of pruning the luxuriance of the human race.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.