Quotes About Disparage

Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be destruction.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

You really are an idiot.

To pursue science is not to disparage things of the spirit.

The important thing is that you should not argue with them [Communists]....Whatever you say, they have ways of twisting it into shapes which put you in some lower category of mankind, 'Fascist,' 'Liberal,' 'Trotskyist,' and disparage you both intellectually and personally in the process.

The very concept of "ethnocentrism," which is used like a sledge-hammer to disparage the West, is a Western invention.

Thinkers too often disparage men of action in ways that do them no credit.

But to note is not to disparage. All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authorities [who criticize Ibsen], I reply, pointedly, that I do. I affirm that such criticisms are written by men who know as much of political life as I know of navigation.

We disparage reason. But all the time it's what we're most concerned with. There's will as motor and there's will as brakes. Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.

Of course I'll respect you in the morning,' she reassured. 'I might disparage you a bit in the afternoon, mind,' she added. 'But I can guarantee my undivided respect in the morning.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

Since we all believe that our merits are misunderstood or flouted, how admit that so general an iniquity could be the doing of mere man? It must go back further and belong to some ancient dirty work, to the very act of the Creation. Thus we know whom to blame, whom to disparage: nothing flatters and sustains us so much as being able to put the source of our indignity as far away from us as possible.

Where the society preaches morality, the universities rebel against morality. Where the society embraces capitalism, the universities challenge capitalism. Where the society supports America, the universities disparage it.

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

Orientalism is but one historical variety of larger epistemological issues, that of the West's encounter with other cultures and of its tendency to disparage and/or idealize them.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

In the Lake Debo region (in Mali, on the Niger), pyramids are also found, and these were dubbed "mounds," as might be expected. This is the usual procedure in the attempt to disparage African values. In contrast, there is the reverse procedure consisting of describing a clay tumulus—a real mound—in Mesopotamia, as the most perfect temple that the human mind can imagine. It goes without saying that such reconstructions are generally mere wishful thinking.

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

Critical thinking doesn't mean we disparage everything; it means that we try to distinguish between claims with evidence and those without.

All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out