“I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanKidsWantedClassIssuesWorstTestsPursue Author:Ashley Rickards
“Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.” MeanGovernmentMightSpiritualCertainIndividualForgetDemocracyWorstMajorityDemocraticInternalsDevicesDictatorshipInfallibleIndividual FreedomUtilitarianSpiritual FreedomDemocratic GovernmentHomogeneousSafeguardingInternal Peace Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Worst ideas? Me? Whatever do you mean? There are no bad ideas.” MeanIdeasWorstBad Ideas Author:Christian Audigier
“As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.” MeanPoorPiecesLandWorstSellsExcellentOwnersGoodsFarmersPeasantsTransport Author:Herman Gorter
“It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.” MeanCan DoWorstAdviceComplainingProtestWorst Things Author:Maya Angelou
“You can concede to an opponent something he hasn't earned. It's one thing to underestimate an opponent. But maybe the worst thing is to overestimate. You always play your strengths. But that doesn't mean you become predictable.” MeanPlayRealityOne ThingWorstOpponentsWorst ThingsUnderestimatePredictableOverestimate Author:Chuck Knox
“The worst side of people is political part of the process, the side that can be very mean and nasty.” PeopleMeanPoliticalProcessSidesWorstNastyVery Mean Author:Rob Zerban
“Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.” MenMeanHas BeensLife IsTermWorstCostOvercomingDepthHeightObsessedThinkerWorth LivingModernityNihilismLiving OnBourgeoisRepresentingIllusoryContinentalLife Is Not Worth Living Author:Allan Bloom
“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.” MeanFacesEvilCan DoLaughingWorstLaugh At Yourself Author:Ayn Rand
“We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.” ShouldKindMayMeanDifferentMatterLevelsWorstPolicyCriticismCriticsPassionateThoughtfulBe KindAnnoyingCautiousViewpointsStoopsVindictive Author:Jimmy Wales