Despising Quotes
32 quotes by 32 authors
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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
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By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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Despising anything that was easy to achieve because if no sacrifice was involved, it obviously isn't worth having.
— Paulo Coelho
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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
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Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal…
— Paul Shepard
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The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The tea party venerates the Constitution while despising the political system it has produced.
— Gideon Rachman
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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
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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
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If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.
— Criss Jami
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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
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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
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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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