Coarse quotes
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it."
"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 think!"
"A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one."
"The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture."
"Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."
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"America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement."
