Quotes About Despise

In making this substitution I had drawn upon the wisdom of a very remote source—the wisdom of my boyhood—for the true statesman does not despise any wisdom, howsoever lowly may be its origin:

Ammu quickly learned to recognize and despise the ugly face of sympathy. They...gloated. She fought off the urge to slap them.

conhece a vida e os homens através do sofrimento, e os despreza com esse forte e nobre desdém que tem origem na profunda convicção da relativa nulidade de tudo, inclusive o próprio eu.

It was beautiful and rare, and you have every right to despise me. She stood pressed to the wall, not moving. When you came in, I thought 'Send her away.' But I knew that if you went away, I'd run after you. I thought 'I won't say a word.' But I knew that you'd know it before you left. I love you. I know you'd think kindlier of me if I said that I hate you.

Apathy robbed me of the strength even to despise myself.

I despise the religions we have, nothing but flummery and manipulation based on texts and materials so reworked over time they're all meaningless. I despise the division religions religions bring; humans have enough problems without that. I despise con men like Father Melly. And yet, and yet …

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.

Is it right for God to be pleased when others hold him in contempt? Is it fitting that he be joyful when his created beings despise him? Of course not! To the contrary, it's fitting and proper for God to be displeased when his created beings hold him in contempt. But this means that it's also fitting and proper for him to be pleased when appropriate love, esteem, and honor are given to him.

He was a choice spirit, and were he living today would agree with us. I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God.

The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

If what most men admire they would despise, It would look as if mankind were growing wise. He that would live in peace and ease Must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

I was not that man: I didn't hate and fear all women. I was a one-woman misogynist. If I despised only Amy, focused all my fury and rage and venom on the one woman who deserved it, that didn't make me my father. That made me sane.

Regret your own actions, if you like that kind of wallowing in self-pity, but never, never despise. Never presume yours is a better morality.

You hate him and I suppose I hate him too. But hate-it isn't important. Hate isn't contagious. It doesn't spread. One can hate one man and leave it there. But when you begin to despise like Doctor Fischer, you end by despising all the world.

Iboga is intimately associated with death; the plant is frequently anthropomorphised as a supernatural being, a 'generic ancestor' who can so highly value or despise an individual that it can carry him away to the land of the dead.5

She could feel the old pain and despised herself for allowing it still to hurt. But how she had loved him!

The problem with atheism, I find, under these circumstances, is that I have no one to despise but myself. If, however, I choose to believe that God is vicious, then at least I have the solace of hating God.

I suppose they, those lives soaked in evil, are miserable and so they ever despise happiness. I suppose they feel powerless and therefore must exert power wherever they can, which is so often upon those unable to comprehend what is happening, much less defend themselves.

The man who is convinced of his own worthlessness will be drawn to a woman he despises—because she will reflect his own secret self, she will release him from that objective reality in which he is a fraud, she will give him a momentary illusion of his own value and a momentary escape from the moral code that damns him.

The man who despises himself tries to gain self-esteem from sexual adventures —which can't be done, because sex is not the cause, but an effect and an expression of a man's sense of his own value.

There's a particular kind of people I despise. Those who seek some higher purpose or 'universal goal', those who do not know what to live for, who moan that they 'must find themselves.' You hear it all around us. That seems to be the official bromide of our century. Every book you open. Every drooling self-confession. It seems to be the noble thing to confess. I think it would be the most shameful one.

Sacrificio' no significa el rechazo de lo vil, sino de lo precioso. 'Sacrificio' no significa el rechazo del mal por el bien, sino el rechazo del bien por el mal. 'Sacrificio' es la renuncia a lo que uno valora en favor de lo que desprecia.

it's the masters who despise the slaves, and the slaves who hate the masters. I don't know who is which. Maybe it doesn't fit here. Maybe it does. I don't know