Defence Quote by David Joseph Cribbin

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I never went downstairs to join my housemates around the television. I cooked dinner later than everyone else and carried the plate up to…

— Sara Baume

“Samuel: What's a misanthrope? Two Bob: A misanthrope is a bugger who hates every other bugger. Samuel: Are we misanthropes? Arthur: Lord no! We're…

— Nick Cave

“I become a misanthrope, he said, the minute I come into contact with people. And it has always been the same with me; the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

— Alfred Nobel

It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often sees is the evidence…

— Manu Joseph

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

— Florence King

“I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can digest philosophy better than food.”

— Alfred Bernhard Nobel

“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants,…

— Diogenes

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space…

— Charles Bukowski

Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for…

— Henry David Thoreau