Famous Quotes | Vulgarity cannot exist in the...

Vulgarity cannot exist in the absence of loftier values. Once it has affected the latter, however, it wants to absorb them. Unless you want to be as weak and small as human beings, you had better stay away from them. - Franz Grillparzer
Attribution: Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), Austrian author. Kascha, in Libussa, act 1 (1872).

Categories: Author, Human Nature, Vulgarity

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