Nastiness Quotations

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastiness.

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.

[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device.

I always exposed the weakness rather than the nastiness.

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.

There`s some nastiness, there`s some meanness there. There`s something going on in the mosques and other places.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.