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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. — William James
It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they call eternal absolute values and… — Ludwig von Mises
Intellectual men who quickly wolf down whatever nourishment is necessary for their bodies with a kind of disdain, may be very rational and have a… — Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few,… — Motsi Mabuse
Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity… — Gary Bauer
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is… — Khalil Gibran
Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear. — Thomas de Quincey
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist… — Joel Salatin
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â… — Aleister Crowley
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that,… — Arthur Rimbaud
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to… — Bill Maher
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces,… — Michael Hastings
All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free. — Benjamin Franklin
I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government… — Jack Kelly
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the… — Mark Lilla
To be a Christian is to be a theologian-a student of God and his will. The contemporary disdain for theological content and emphasis on self-image… — R C Sproul
I've always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are… — Gavin McInnes
It seems I have a hard time being attracted to someone unless I respect what they do on some level. Otherwise, I would feel disdain… — Eric Stoltz
A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have… — Marcel Proust
A root is a flower that disdains fame. — Khalil Gibran
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts. — Robert Walpole
Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth. I find this more and more every… — John Ruskin
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. — Logan Pearsall Smith

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