Despise Quotes

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

Freedom, Expression

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Road, Turn

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

Good, Great, Leader

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Left, Either, Rocks

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius

Nature, Death, Else

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Abraham Maslow

Away, Ocean, Gave

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
Benjamin Disraeli

Either, Surpass

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
Blaise Pascal

Religion, Men, Hate

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great, Power, Pain

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Best, Others, Themselves

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
Saint Patrick

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
Thomas Huxley

Wise, Nothing, Once

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn

Help, Understand, Lord

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
George Stevens

Yourself, Others, Arrogance

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
Aleister Crowley

Hell, Able, Fact

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
Michelangelo

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
George Santayana

True, Himself, Dignity

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William Hazlitt

Love, Friendship, Hate

If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
Andre Maurois

Him, Value, Strive

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

God, Human, Remember

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
Charles Caleb Colton

Fear, Often, Pretend

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Virgil

Learn, Example, Gods

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton

Truth, Mean, Others

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr

Enemy, Arts, Convention

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus

Greatness, Bottom, Ascent

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

Education, Ignorant

Only the elites despise earning money.
Newt Gingrich

Money, Earning, Elites

But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
James Otis

Made, Soul, Conscience

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