...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.
Chris CrutcherTags: prejudice racism bigotry small-mindedness
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel JohnsonTags: jealousy tea wine generosity small-mindedness reckoning
How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of others.
Sarah Shun-lien BynumTags: small-mindedness brilliance
Yet decency nagged at their reluctant hearts; and they acknowledged that, too, in unconscious phrases -- 'I fail to understand...', 'I cannot bring myself to overlook...', 'Tolerance is all very well up to a point...' -- as if they had tried the ways of magnanimity but found them too exigent.
Shirley HazzardTags: decency small-mindedness
And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn’t know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne.
Frank Cottrell BoyceTags: ignorance small-mindedness unknowing
Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.
Stephen E. AmbroseTags: small-mindedness petty chickenshit
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