#abject

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

#below #contemptible #degree #dignity #great

‎"The only abject failure my mind can think of is ones failure to spend Eternity in God's Heaven" ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. ↗

— Viola Davis

#acting #age #environment #escaping #grew

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

#came #go #i #i came #nowhere

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#beggars #even #had #hate #i

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#bringing #considerably #destroying #down #leave

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#abject #ambitious #believed #envious #humble

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. ↗

— Washington Irving

#love #romantic #women #love

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#between #commerce #disinterested #equals #friendship

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arm #attitude #clinic #feel #feels