"The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral,……" — William Hazlitt
"The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness."
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William Hazlitt
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493 Quotes by William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt has 493 quotes on this site.
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look,…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund…
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been…
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out…
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More Bigotry Quotes
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own…
— Joseph Addison
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
— Annie Besant
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
— George H. W. Bush
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
— Lord Byron
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a…
— Andrew Carnegie
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce…
— Maya Angelou
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The…
— Urvashi Vaid
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