“Assume the worst about people and you get the worst.”
Thing 5
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (2010)
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““Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist
Thomas L. Masson, The Book of Today, (1923), as cited in: Clifton Fadiman (1955) The American treasury, 1455-1955. p. 791.
“People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Variant: Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Le persone vere spaventano. Poi, se sono anche intelligenti, sono il peggior incubo di chi usa un copione per andare in giro.
Source: prevale.net
“To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate.”
Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) American writer
New York Times (27 August 1984)
“The worst of all states is the people's state.”
Le pire des États, c'est l'État populaire.
Cinna, act II, scene i.
Cinna (1641)
“Sinatra brings out the best and worst in people.”
Gay Talese (1932) American writer
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)
“… because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.”
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Green Party presidential candidacy speech (2000)
“Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.”
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father of India's Constitution, polymath, revolutionary…
Political Science for Civil Services Main Examination (2010)