Despising Quotes

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If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we… — Carter Heyward
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. — William Hazlitt
He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Communism is the end of the economy as a separate and privileged field on which everything else depends while despising and fearing it. — Gilles Dauve
Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having. — Paulo Coelho
As president, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, created the Environmental Protection Agency, initiated race-based hiring schemes, signed SALT I with the Soviets and instituted… — Ann Coulter
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal… — Paul Shepard
The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes… — Henri Poincare
It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed… — Bonnie Jo Campbell
Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the… — Matt Taibbi
Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that… — James Clavell
To have faith in Christ means more than simply despising the delights of this life. It means we should bear all our daily trials that… — Symeon the New Theologian
The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced. — Gideon Rachman
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion for the poor;… — John of Damascus
He has as yet no perfect love, whose disposition towards men depends on what they are like, loving one and despising another for this or… — Maximus the Confessor
If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself. — Criss Jami
Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for… — Camille Paglia
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… — Noah Webster
There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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