Mean Spirited Quotes

• When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  David A. Bednar

  Believe, Mean, Offending

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

  Ann Coulter

  Christian, Mean, Firsts

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.77, Crown Forum

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• A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there are two dogs inside me. One dog is this positive, loving, kind, and gentle dog and then I have this angry, mean-spirited, and negative dog and they fight all the time. I don't know which is going to win.” The wise man thinks for a moment and he says, “I know which is going to win. The one you feed the most, so feed the positive dog.

  Jon Gordon

  Wise, Dog, Mean

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.50, John Wiley & Sons

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• Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

  John Cleese

  Mean, Comedy, Spirited

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• These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

  Jane Russell

  Christian, Mean, Wings

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The good guys in my movies mind their own business and they don't judge other people. And the bad guys are jealous, they judge other people without knowing the whole story, they want all the attention and they're mean spirited. So I think my films are politically correct in a weird way.

  John Waters

  Mean, Jealous, Thinking

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• Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, Men, Coward

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• There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember that you might be the most black-hearted and mean-spirited in the lot, so hold yourself the most accountable of all.

  Darren Shan

  Mean, Black, Important

  Darren Shan (2012). “ZOM-B”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Honesty, Lying, Believe

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• Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivational, Cheating, Bullying

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Vicious, Democrat

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• I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

  Pat Conroy

  Selfish, Mean, Conservative

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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• When you're out there in America, meeting with regular people, it's a pretty mellow, relaxed, kind-hearted country. The direction from the top, from the President, is following mean-spirited tendencies: fear and undue caution and distrust of the other, so it's very depressing.

  George Saunders

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

  David A. Bednar

  Offended You, Choices, Conditions

  "And Nothing Shall Offend Them" by David A. Bednar, www.lds.org. October 2006.

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• If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

  Dennis Prager

  Philosophy, Believe, Mean

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Fun, Mean, Easy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, People, Guy

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• I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian, but I was never very successful because I did it poorly. So I started to talk to the audience and started talking about the atmosphere around me and started to become angry, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a fun way - and my attitude developed from there.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Attitude, Mean

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• For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

  Michael Schur

  Mean, People, Purpose

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. March 24, 2011.

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• The supposition that it was possible for any woman to be so mean-spirited as not at least to wish to tear out her rival's eyes was too hard for the digestion of the Cry.

  Sarah Fielding

  Eye, Mean, Wish

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (1754). “The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable”, p.33

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• Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Powerful, Mean, Names

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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• I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do the broads come on?" I got good at saying, "Relax. Clear your skin up first." They called me "the insult guy," but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Talking, Guy

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• I've never been mean-spirited, in my opinion. I never did anything below the belt.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, Opinion, Belts

  Source: www.maxim.com

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• I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.

  Hillary Clinton

  Party, Mean, Thinking

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