Cruelty and universal stupidity, dressing in atavistic feathers, glorified by millennia of bookish lies and bloodthirsty stupidity, turn me into something worse, stupider and more terrible than a wild beast. I am not talking about such noble and respectable animals as a dog, horse or cow.
A lizard reaches the highest mountain peaks no worse than an eagle.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The worse people’s lives are, the more they surround themselves with external affectations: fine clothes, temples, palaces, parades, social events, church services, processions, séances, and speeches.
—Leo Tolstoy
Spiritual acts for tyrants are worse than bodily ones. A thief will be pardoned sooner than a righteous man who is strong in spirit.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
If we search within ourselves, we can almost always find the very sin we condemn someone else for. If we don’t find precisely that sin, all we have to do is search and we’ll find something worse.
—Leo Tolstoy
What’s even worse than a flute? – Two flutes!
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.
—Plato
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, tragedy as better than in actual life.
—Aristotle
… until we truly humble ourselves, forgetting other people, and those who are worse than we are, until we see ourselves as we are in the sight of God, and confess our sins and come it ourselves into His Almighty hands, we have no right to look for peace and happiness.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
A cowardly friend is worse than an enemy, since you take precautions against your enemy, but you rely upon your friend.
—Leo Tolstoy
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde
Getting used to a life of idleness is worse than all life’s disasters.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you do not come to Christ, you must either continue still weary and burdened, or, which is worse, you must return to your old dead sleep, to a state of stupidity; and not only so, but you must be everlastingly wearied with God’s wrath.
—Jonathan Edwards
Truths are not the better nor the worse for their obviousness or difficulty, but their value is to be measured by their usefulness and tendency.
—John Locke