Nastiness Quotes

“Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.”
― Molière

“Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work and origins unless they were his friends, he was a genius, and Voss one of the finest works of the modernist era and of the past century.”
― Thomas Keneally

“The Guardian's headline is 'How Going Green May Make You Mean.' We're inclined to think the chain of causation runs the other way—that people who are jerks to begin with gravitate toward verdant sanctimony.”
― James Taranto

“Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Nastiness devalues the speaker as well because the unwillingness to restrain the urge marks the speaker as less civilized, more animal-like.”
― Stephen L. Carter, Civility

“Past misdeeds must only serve as a reference point in calm conversation about lessons learned or actions that taught us to behave better. They should never be bantered about with sarcasm, anger, or nastiness.”
― Cathy Burnham Martin, The Bimbo Has Brains: And Other Freaky Facts

“Nasty white folks is about the nastiest things they is.”
― Toni Morrison

“What do you know?' Nesta breathed. 'You're just a half-wild beast with the nerve to bark orders at all hours of the day and night. Keep it up and someday- someday, Feyre, you'll have no one left to remember you or to care that you ever existed.'
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I'd heard the words before- and knew she only repeated them because I'd flinched the first time she spat them. They still burned anyway.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses