Petty

Famous quotes containing the word petty:

“A petty bureaucrat always watches his superior’s countenance, just as a boatman trims his sails according to the force of the wind.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.”
—Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

“Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)