He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people,… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones. — Molière Copy Share Image
Zombies are a great rhetorical prop to talk about people and paranoia, and they are a good vehicle for my misanthropy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.” — Mark Frost Copy Share Image
The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind.… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
I'm interested in stories which insist on a dog fails-to-eat-dog kind of world. I hate misanthropy, want to believe that there's a… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
“Sombre thoughts and fancies often require a little real soil or substance to flourish in; they are the dark pine-trees which take… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these… — Molière Copy Share Image
“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a parent giving to a child, a worker to a company, or a romantic to a lover,… — John Frederick Demartini Copy Share Image
“I killed little Esmerelda because I felt I owed it to myself and to the world in general. I had, after all,… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“I'd take cyanide no problem if it was that or throwing a cat out in the street, even a moth-eaten, mangy, caterwauling… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“You are not special. You're just fucking not. You're a bland, boring motherfucker just like everybody else. You ever been to the… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“Oh, misanthropy and sourness. Gary wanted to enjoy being a man of wealth and leisure, but the country was making it none… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Whenever I tell people I'm a misanthrope they react as though that's a bad thing, the idiots. I live in London, for… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. — Moliere Copy Share Image
In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“He never cared too much for parties or people, but misanthropy could easily be cured by several alcoholic drinks.” — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“If I have been more backward in seeking her society, it is because I do not like her, and my acquaintance amongst… — Sarah Harriet Burney Copy Share Image
