Quotes About Disfavor

The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor.

The limitations of literalness and an excessive reliance upon reciprocity as a principle for constructing an ultimate environment can result either in an overcontrolling, stilted perfectionism or "works righteousness" or in their opposite, an abasing sense of badness embraced because of mistreatment, neglect or the apparent disfavor of significant others.

If there is a sport that I'm not particularly fond of, then it is synchronized swimming.

I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.

Things out o' natur niver thrive: God A'mighty doesn't like 'em.

No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.

The glorification of one race and the consequent debasement of another—or others—always has been and always will be a recipe for murder. There is no way around this. If one is permitted to treat any group of people with special disfavor because of their race or the color of their skin, there is no limit to what one will force them to endure, and, since the entire race has been mysteriously indicted, no reason not to attempt to destroy it root and branch.

Whatever approval is supposed to come your way will do so in perfect alignment. Whatever disfavor shows up is also a part of this perfect alignment.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

I don't like video games.

That was totally not fair.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.