Despised Quotes

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When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses. — Andrew Sullivan
The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised. — Laozi
Conservatives are people who worship at the graves of dead radicals. Stop to think about that. The people who started this country, George Washington, Jefferson,… — Tony Campolo
One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort… — Hjalmar SÃ¶derberg
Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives. — Jeffrey Bernard
The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity,… — Bennett Madison
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the… — A. Philip Randolph
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the… — Nina Bawden
I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest. I dont believe anymore in religions, because… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
You can sell millions of records, be showered with all this love and admiration and still feel despised and unwanted. That's what I felt. I've… — Scott Stapp
And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him… — Margaret Cavendish
A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated. — Alphonsus Liguori
But I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands. — Dorothy Dunnett
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty.… — Calvin Coolidge
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take… — Fritz Sauckel
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture. — Cressida Cowell
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… — Joseph Campbell
Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitlerâ€™s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before,… — Albert Einstein
I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only… — Justus von Liebig

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