National antipathy is the basest, because the most…

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison-a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.

— Louis Menand

“He had been dazzled. Because of the dazzling brightness, he had had to kill [Seigen]. All who had encountered Seigen had had their hearts…

— Takayuki Yamaguchi

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place…

— George Washington

Theoretically, we Mennonites do not even know what we look like, since a focus on our personal appearance is vainglorious. Our antipathy to vainglory…

— Rhoda Janzen

An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture…

— William C. Brown

The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow…

— Eric Hoffer

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy…

— Soren Kierkegaard

The thing about youthful offenders is that no one seems to care about them. Most people don't like adolescents - even the good ones…

— Ayelet Waldman

Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political…

— Albert J. Nock

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

— Horace Walpole

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself…

— Charlie Munger

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the…

— Albert Pike

“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses…

— Charlotte Brontë

ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

— Ambrose Bierce