Lowest Quotes

• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

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• This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions.. the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

  Jim DeMint

  Common, Republican, Happens

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  The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thank You, Military, Marine

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• Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.

  Mary C. Ames

  Eye, Men, Perfect

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• The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Humble, Pride, Winning

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• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  J. C. Watts

  Football, Strong, Team

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• When I'm on the phone with a listener or I meet someone one-on-one, and they're on the lowest rung of hell and they open up, I realize, hey, this isn't about being a DJ anymore. When you're with people who are going through a difficult part of life, that's sacred space. That's better than any trophy or meeting a rock star.

  Terri Hemmert

  People, Realizing, Hell

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.chicagotribune.com. February 23, 2014.

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• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sports, Hockey, Fandoms

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• Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

  Demi Moore

  Opportunity, Better Person, Exciting

  "Demi Monde" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2007.

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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, America, Citizens

  "CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Impact

  " To strike is a right - stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

  Alexander Pope

  Humor, Literature, Form

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• I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  Will Self

  Psychology, Crowds, Common

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Government, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

  Victor Hugo

  Depth, Substance, Useless

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.798, Modern Library

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• I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Goal, Target

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Practice, Should

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• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

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• At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

  Kris Carr

  Sugar, Painful, Behavior

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.

  James Surowiecki

  Thinking, Want, Way

  "Penny-Wise" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 27, 2004.

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• What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of nothingness. It's the lowest you can go. It's the end of the line. How can something be less than nothing? If there were something that was less than nothing, then nothing would not be nothing, it would be something - even though it's just a very little bit of something. But if nothing is nothing, then nothing has nothing that is less than it is.

  E. B. White

  Mean, Thinking, Would Be

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• Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Courage, Exercise, Mountain

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• Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

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• Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Hatred, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

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