The fierce words of Jesus addressed to the Pharisees of His day stretch across the bands of time. Today they are directed not only to fallen televangelists but to each of us. We miss Jesus' point entirely when we use His words as weapons against others. They are to be taken personally by each of us. This is the form and shape of Christian Pharisaism in our time. Hypocrisy is not hte prerogative of people in high places. The most impoverished among us is capable of it. Hypocrisy is the natural expression of what is meanest in us all.
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
Gratitude - the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.
I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost. . . but still, I was alive.
The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.
For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the under-workman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces, which come from the hand of the master.
The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.
The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent.
In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.
I've said I want the meanest, toughest SOB I can find to protect America. And so that's why Trump's tone doesn't bother me.
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.
