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  • The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

  • If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

  • I'm aware of what you've done for me, and I'm not ungrateful. I appreciate that you actually showed yourself to be greater than your prejudices and have given me a chance here. But I don't want you for my lover, and you're not my father.

  • Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

    Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
  • Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.

    Men   Ungrateful   Earth  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, Epigrams, CXL. 1, 1922.
  • I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

    Kids   Guitar   Play  
    "Radiohead's Guitarist Adapts To Life In Widescreen". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 15, 2012.
  • If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

    Nice   Past   Years  
  • Even though many people prove to be ungrateful, do not let that stop you from benefiting others-for not only is beneficence in itself a noble and almost divine quality, it may also happen that while you practice it, you will encounter someone so grateful that he will make up for all the others' ingratitude.

  • Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.

    Robert South (1827). “Discourses on Various Subjects and Occasions: Selected from the Complete English Edition. With a Sketch of His Life and Character”, p.433
  • There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

    Reginald Horace Blyth (1951). “Haiku: Eastern culture”
  • Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

    Ana Monnar (2005). “Relax: New and Selected Poems”, p.112, Author House
  • Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next.

    Friedrich Schiller (2017). “Philosophical Letters of Friedrich Schiller”, p.20, Litres
  • The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. When all other friends desert, he remains.

    Dog   Selfish   Kissing  
    "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.
  • Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

    Wise   Stupid   Believe  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.93, Youcanprint
  • Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

    Morning   Hate   Real  
  • The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

    George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.
  • One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.

    Men   Ungrateful   Needs  
  • Sadness is so ungrateful.

  • To despond is to lie ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.

  • To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.

    Heart   Ungrateful   May  
  • I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

  • Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

  • Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

  • Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  • If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.

  • But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

    Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.94, Bantam
  • Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

    Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.15, Zondervan
  • Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster
  • A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

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