meanness quotes

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.