Love Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in…

— Walker Percy

“There is exquisite pleasure in subduing an insolent spirit, in making a person pre-determined to dislike, acknowledge one's superiority.”

— Jane Austen

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“Love of self is still determined by negativity insofar as it devalues and wards off the Other in favor of the Own.”

— Byung-Chul Han

“There is nothing that so satisfactorily unites individuals who have been so unfortunate as to quarrel amongst themselves as a strong mutual dislike for…

— P.G.Wodehouse

“We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.”

— Vironika Tugaleva

“It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in…

— Jacques Rancière

“No other being is lesser human than the one who thinks of others as such.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“...wrong to think the less of another for what he or she was. There was no moral obligation to like others, nor necessarily to…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“If the idea of loving those whom you have been taught to recognize as your enemies is too overwhelming, consider more deeply the observation…

— Aberjhani

“Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride he knew, because it was the most destructive…

— Paulo Coelho

“What we cannot admit in ourselves we often find in others. If a person--who speaks of another person whom he hates with a vengeance…

— Elizabeth Wagele