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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy. – Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography	added by anonymous 13 years ago
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. – Whitheead	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it. – W. Somerset Maugham	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. – Henry Ward Beecher	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. – Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. – James Joseph Sylvester	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. – Miguel Cervantes	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Crude, immoral, vulgar and senseless. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You have all the characteristics of a popular politician a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. – Aristophanes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. – Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life. – Sir Thomas Browne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success. – Kurt Herbert Alder	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wisdom and spirit of the Universe Thou soul is the eternity of thought That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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