Despicable Quotes

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear. — Albert Camus
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,… — Jimmy Carter
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think… — Jimmy Carter
A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet… — Matthew Henry
How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business. — Albert Einstein
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
She's the coolest person in the world...I don't date what the person does...You know what I mean? I could have been a zitty teenager and… — Adam Levine
You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies. — Aesop
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of… — Ugo Betti
If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had… — Richard Baxter
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. — Marion Milner
The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from. — Emily Post
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there… — Muriel Barbery
The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as… — W. Somerset Maugham
In this filthy despicable world someone suddenly reached out and held on to me. My life in my darkest moment, at the moment of all… — Kim Young-kwang

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