He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons. — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Some confidants have wings and a beak, or four legs and a tail.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful. — Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
“... but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal… — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead. — Warren Ellis 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'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish… — Anonymous 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
“I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity… — Moliere 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
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
“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
Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can't celebrate humanity but I'm not out to indict it… — Todd Solondz 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'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
“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
“Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, my books, etc...… — Mark X Copy Share Image
“I think he just loved being with the bears because they didn't make him feel bad. I get it too. When he… — Michael Thomas Ford 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
The angry men know that this golden age (of fossil fuels) has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints… — George Monbiot 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 am ashamed of the race of beings to which I belong. It is so cruel and bigoted, so hypocritical, so soulless… — J. Howard Moore Copy Share Image
“There's a strange contradiction revealed by the naivete and kindness demonstrated by humanity when faced with the universe: On Earth, humankind can… — Cixin Liu Copy Share Image
“If the bulls were allowed to increase their knowledge as the bullfighter does, and if those bulls which are not killed in… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Jam jamming,” Meghan chanted in a sing song voice. “I like the idea, the feel. I KNOW what you are getting at.… — Jaime Allison Parker 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
“8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“His room was a sickly dual-tone of crimson and charcoal, like an Untitled Rothko, the colours bleeding into each other horribly and… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and… — Molière 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
“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
