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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• Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.

  Amartya Sen

  Girl, School, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Failure, Adversity

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• There are a lot of people on the lowest rung of Jacob's Ladder, and we must somehow reach down, give them a hand, and make them want to climb. A little really good music never hurt anyone. And when people are given good music they can grow spiritually and even discover they like it.

  Dave Brubeck

  Hurt, People, Giving

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• ...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

  Julian of Norwich

  Prayer, Needs, Goodness

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• You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Sarcasm, Extremely Funny, Form

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• This work, though it deals only with eating and drinking, which are regarded in the eyes of our supernaturalistic mock-culture as the lowest acts, is of the greatest philosophic significance and importance... How former philosophers have broken their heads over the question of the bond between body and soul! Now we know, on scientific grounds, what the masses know from long experience, that eating and drinking hold together body and soul, that the searched-for bond is nutrition.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Drinking, Food, Eye

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• Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Jealousy, Dope

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Men, Artist

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.38, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

  George Santayana

  Men, Religion, Atheism

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.450, Indiana University Press

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• Ambition hath but two steps: the lowest, blood; the highest, envy.

  William Lilly

  Ambition, Blood, Two

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• In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Morning, Motivation, Heart

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.5, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Laughing, May

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• It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

  E. B. White

  Odds, Sky, Cities

  E.B. White (2011). “Here is New York”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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• Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains [heaven]. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared with a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Blood, Heaven

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• I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Talking, Majority Leader

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We know where the television is - everything has to be a sound bite; everything has to be an image; ideas are okay as long as they don't take more than four or five seconds to explain; candidates and issues are commodities that are sold like cans of soup; entertainment is limited to what a few people believe the lowest common denominator is; and you can't talk back to it.

  Howard Rheingold

  Believe, Ideas, Issues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign.

  Barack Obama

  Past, Listening, Tvs

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Memories, Heart

  "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power". Book by Jimmy Carter, March 25, 2014.

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• It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

  David Hume

  Believe, Passion, Deities

  David Hume (1793). “An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An inquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.595

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