Abject Quotes

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals;

love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Union. We are told that we ought not to treat it seriously. The Times talked of the childrens hour. I disagree. It is a very disquieting and disgusting symptom. One can almost feel the curl of contempt upon the lips of the manhood of Germany, Italy, and France when they read the message sent out by Oxford University in the name of Young England. Let them be assured that it is not the last word. But before they blame, as blame they should, these callow ill-tutored youths, they must be sure that they have not been set a bad example by people much older and much higher up.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

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

This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.

Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

The challenge of development: abject poverty surrounded by corruption.

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.

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

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive.

It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

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.

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

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.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history.

Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.