Worst Quotes - Page 37

• Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.

  Ben Nicholson

  Fall, Worst Enemy, Tyrants

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• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Teresa of Avila

  Night, Light, Heaven

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• To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism at its worst.

  Bob Black

  World, Libertarian, Corporations

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

  Nina Blackwood

  Done, Interviews, Zappa

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• Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'

  Albert Camus

  Love, Faith, Unhappy

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.63, Vintage

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• Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Order, People, Worst Times

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Eye, Artist, Evil

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.987, Delphi Classics

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• From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Important, Ordinary

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• A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Attitude, Stay Positive, Outstanding

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful but become well-adjusted to an unjust status quo as opposed to being great & being maladjusted to an unjust status quo.

  Cornel West

  Successful, Greatness, People

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• Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

  Tan Twan Eng

  People, World, Moments

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• As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Bears, Neurology

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive.

  Kakha Bendukidze

  Government, Liberty, Useless

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• The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather.

  Simon Jenkins

  Children, Lying, Reality

  "The state has only aided our seasonal spates of thuggery" by Simon Jenkins, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2007.

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• Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

  Rich Hall

  America, Evil, News

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• There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.

  Gray Davis

  Summer, Years, Sight

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• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Artist, Law

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

  Mary McCarthy

  Fate, People

  New York Times, August 27, 1984.

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• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges, Oil, Next

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• Advice is unfriendly to learning, especially when it is sought. Most of the time when people seek advice, they just want to be heard. Advice at best stops the conversation, definitely inhibits learning, and at worst claims dominance.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, People

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• You should thank the people who bring out the worst in you. Had it not been for them, you would never have come to know of your worst side.

  Ramesh Babu

  Inspirational, People, Sides

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• The worst curse in life is unlimited potential.

  Ken Brett

  Unlimited Potential, Life Is, Curse

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• What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Work, Missing, Want

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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