These mean people quotes will inspire you. Mean people, if someone is being mean, they are being unkind to another person, for example by not allowing them to do something.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mean people quotes, mean people sayings, and mean people proverbs.
Best Mean People Quotes
- “Presents don’t really mean much to me. I don’t want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.” ~ Gabriel Byrne
- “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” ~ William Gibson
- “People don’t mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.” ~ Moliere
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“… no matter how nice you are to some people, they’ll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.” ~ Jeff Kinney
- “In life you’ll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it’s because they’re stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance… Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.” ~ Marjane Satrapi
- “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature – is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one can (or wants to) believe this individual has a vindictive nature – only the current target of the serial bully’s aggression sees both sides; whilst the Jekyll side is described as “charming” and convincing enough to deceive personnel, management and a tribunal, the Hyde side is frequently described as “evil”; Hyde is the real person, Jekyll is an act.” ~ Tim Field
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“If you’re really a mean person you’re going to come back as a fly and eat poop.” ~ Kurt Cobain
- “In life’s journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.” ~ Krystal , Mean people quotes life
- “People aren’t stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it’s 4 _ percent. We’ve got 1/4 million jobs that we’ve created.” ~ William Weld
- “People will hurt you. But don’t use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.” ~ LeCrae
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“Being mean about other people isn’t on my radar.” ~ Geri Halliwell
- “Mean people are no fun.” ~ Thom Filicia
- “Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future” ~ Umar
- “A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.” ~ Simone Weil
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“When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.” ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
- “I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.” ~ Jon Fishman
- “I mean people up here aren’t stupid, I’m lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.” ~ Doug Ose
- “I mean people just have a way of – y’know they’ll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don’t want to be in” ~ Elliott Smith
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“There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don’t mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either” ~ Della Reese
- “In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We’re such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn’t really get dressed up to go to school.” ~ Lauren Conrad
- “The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye” ~ Emmanuel Jal
- “When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.” ~ David A. Bednar
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“If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.” ~ William Feather
- “We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America — none, whatsoever.” ~ Ronald Reagan , Mean people quotes haters
- “Born in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Words don’t mean, people mean.” ~ Alfred Korzybski
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“Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.” ~ Grantland Rice
- “And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.” ~ Sophie Scholl
- “Islam doesn’t promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion, and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you’re a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism, is going to be violent.” ~ Reza Aslan
- “Your success, your life, your happiness. Don’t let mean people bring that down.” ~ Taylor Swift
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“Popularity means people think they know you.” ~ Kristin Hannah
- “I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty – and it leads to problems occasionally, ’cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.” ~ Alton Brown
- “That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?” ~ Joseph Addison
- “It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes” ~ Oswald Chambers
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“Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.” ~ William Feather
- “Pretty, and you may be talented, but nobody will remember that if you’re mean.” ~ Katie Holmes
- “The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil – doers, only adds to the evil in the world.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
- “I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can’t afford to take legal action against them.” ~ Elton John
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“Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “I wish all the mean people, if you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we’d have no terrorists left. Like, don’t kill innocent people for no reason. It’s not fair. We love everybody. We’d even like them if they said they’re sorry. It’s not fair that innocent people are getting hurt. It makes me sad.” ~ Tara Reid
- “I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don’t want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul’s Drag Race.” ~ Jason Wu
- “Excellence is a process, not just an outcome. Sure, we have to hold out for high standards in the products or services we provide. The goods must be more than “good enough.” But so must our approach – you know, our methodology, the way we do business and deal with people. How could the ends be considered excellent if we can’t be proud of the means?” ~ Price Pritchett
- “I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they’re not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I’m very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.” ~ George Michael
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“Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn’t mean they are great communicators in person.” ~ Christie Brinkley
- “I think we should be very clear on this. You know, this country was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment… It was the idea that people could talk, reason, have dialogue, discuss the issues. It wasn’t founded on the idea that someone would get struck by a divine inspiration and know everything right from wrong. I mean, people who founded this country had religion, they had strong beliefs, but they believed in reason, in dialogue, in civil discourse. We can’t lose that in this country. We’ve got to get it back.” ~ Wesley Clark
- “Well there’s nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it’s his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have – there are other things in life besides politics.” ~ Caroline Kennedy
- “I don’t even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save too much during that period? I don’t know what a credit bubble means. I don’t even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don’t think they have any meaning.” ~ Eugene Fama
- “The bottom line is that every single member of Congress has to get voted into office every two or six years. That means they need to look really good in their home district and state. That means good local press. That means people in their district thinking, “Man, I really don’t like Congress, but I like Senator Bob.”” ~ Ezra G. Levin
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“The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.” ~ Wynonna Judd
- “A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can’t walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.” ~ Viggo Mortensen
- “If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You’re crazy. Plus they’re going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.” ~ Diane Arbus
- “If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that’s how we communicate. That doesn’t mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.” ~ Patricia Arquette
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“I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‘title’ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.” ~ Kevin Hart
- “I mean, people who watch Jon Stewart’s show every night don’t think he went far enough, because he couldn’t do what he does on his show every night, because it’s a different job. The same thing with Chris Rock. He can’t come out and do a tossed-salad routine, the way he does on his HBO shows, because this is the Academy Awards.” ~ Bruce Vilanch
- “Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn’t mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.” ~ Toks Olagundoye
- “I think the idea that women have all this wonderful emotion is a myth, as well as the fact that men do not. I mean, people are people. What is happening across the board is that the recognition that emotions, and the spirit and soul play a fundamental part in the art of healing.” ~ Caroline Myss
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“Events like this mean we can give something back to the people that support us, and hopefully everyone will have a great day and we can put on a good show for them.” ~ Nelson Piquet
- “Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It’s just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we’re left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.” ~ Sam Harris
- “It will be difficult if people can’t get past their prejudices; I don’t mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.” ~ Romany Malco
- “I don’t know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?” ~ Edwidge Danticat
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“Real value means people value-and creating value really means helping people choose better lives.” ~ Oliver DeMille
- “I wanted to see if I could create something that is emotional between people. Existing games are about killing each other or killing something together. The idea of social emotion means people need to share feelings. At that moment, the players are in sync. The problem [with many games] is there’s no chance to share emotion. Most of them are busy, [there are] explosions everywhere. So we got rid of all the background noise and we had to get rid of the guns.” ~ Jenova Chen
- “There are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them… or both!” ~ Buck Henry
- “The alcohol was awful. I was a terrible alcoholic. I mean, people used to ask how much drugs I did. I said, ‘I only do drugs so I can drink more’. I was doing the coke so I could drink more. I mean, I don’t know any other reason. I’d start drinking in the morning. I’d drink all day long.” ~ Dennis Hopper
