Quotes About Despicable

Detering walks about cursing. 'What have they done to deserve that, that's what I want to know?' And later on he comes back to it again. His voice is agitated and he sounds as if he is making a speech when he says, 'I tell you this: it is the most despicable thing of all to drag animals into a war.

Well, what can I say, it's a base world,' he finally muttered. 'But that's no reason for us all to become despicable.

The merchant, lowering his head, said nothing. 'Well, what can I say, it's a base world,' he finally muttered. 'But that's no reason for us all to become despicable. What we need is kindness. My father taught me that and I teach it to my sons.

fuckhead n. VULGAR SLANG a stupid or contemptible person (often used as a general term of abuse).

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! How vile and despicable seems war to me!

Those, therefore, who effect to despise profane Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and idleness, that induces them to build these flimsy fortification of pretentious ignorance.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

He just said the powers that be had trouble making up their minds, the terrorists were even more despicable than civilians could comprehend, which most would be surprised was possible, and that he had lost his two closest friends.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

I think it's despicable to be on display and a fashion showoff.

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Sir, when the love of peace degenerates into fear of war, it becomes of all passions the most despicable." —Senator Giles of Virginia, to President Thomas Jefferson, before the War of 1812

When he lifted the cover of one of the trash cans, before emptying the contents of his own pail into it, he was always astonished by its neatness and order. His own trash was the most indecent collection in the entire building. Repugnant and despicable. There was no resemblance between it and the honest, day-to-day trash of the other tenants. That had a solid, respectable appearance, and his did not.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself. Lo! I show you THE LAST MAN. What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?--so asketh the last man and blinketh. The earth hath then become small, and on it there hoppeth the last man who maketh everything small. His species is ineradicable like that of the ground-flea; the last man liveth longest.

The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the 'immoral' man. 'He who is not moral is immoral!' and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

As you wisely said, Scipio, a true republic can exist only when the citizens consent to be bound together under the law. The monstrosity you describe surely deserves the name of tyranny just as much as if it were a single person. Actually, it is even worse, for there is nothing more despicable than a government that falsely assumes the appearance and the name of .

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

Naturally society cherished itself alone; it prized what everyone agreed was precious, despised what everyone agreed was despicable, and ignored what no one mentioned-all to its own enhancement, and with the loud view that these bubbles and vapors were eternal and universal.

Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

You have to make a choice, and you have to commit to a character. You're either a babyface or a character that the fans relate to, support, love and aspire to be, or you're not. And if you're not, you're a heel: you're despicable, and they need to learn to love to hate you.

A pretend friendship was the vilest of despicable things.