Crass – Quotes

Are we no greater

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so? Edwin Arlington Robinson

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. Edith Wharton

I am too inquisitive,

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers – at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not … Read more

Modern man has no

Modern man has no real \”value\” for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a \”thing\” in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the \”good\” of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things … Read more

To survive in a

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations – the police, the military, what have you – you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can’t survive being the nice guy in those environments. Dean Norris

In some of our

In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy. David L. Bazelon

It’s such a crass

It’s such a crass idea – you’re either in love or out of love. Damien Hirst

I have not been

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression ‘killing time.’ It’s a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us. Christopher Hitchens

Killing time. Its a

Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us. Christopher

We need to fight

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons Chris Crass