Despise Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government…

— Alan Dershowitz

Why will we struggle to attain, and strive, When all we gain is but an empty dream?-- Better, unto my thinking, doth it seem…

— Madison Cawein

I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the most powerful women in the world are…

— Petra Collins

You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good…

— Anonymous

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one…

— Voltaire

Religion is nothing more than a useless and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying…

— Richard Dawkins

The propensity to intellectualize is itself both essential and dangerous. I think in our modern world we are much more aware of its essential…

— Talal Asad

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

— Thomas Jefferson

I never ever, ever say anything against my husband to anyone except my husband. Everyone gets in fights, and I think the natural propensity…

— Jen Lancaster

“A comprehensively reductive conception is favored by the belief that the propensity for the development of organisms with a subjective view must have been…

— Thomas Nagel

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I…

— Carol Tavris