Detest Quotes - Page 5

• In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Peace, War

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• I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Office, Political, Tenure

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1191, e-artnow

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• If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood--to hate himself.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Hate, Latin, Men

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.192, Book Tree

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• I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship. Instead, I believe in searching for a kind of love that somehow involves all of humanity.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Believe, Ideas, Two

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• I detest those who deceive me.

  Steve Berry

  Deceiving

  Steve Berry (2015). “The Cotton Malone Series 9-Book Bundle”, p.72, Ballantine Books

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• I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

  Jane Austen

  Girl, Hate, Passion

  Jane Austen (2015). “The Jane Austen MEGAPACK TM: All Her Classic Works”, p.475, Wildside Press LLC

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• I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lying, Years, Two

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• Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Sight, Troll

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Wisdom, Appreciation

  John Steinbeck (1963). “The short novels of John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat, The red pony, Of mice and men, The moon is down, Cannery Row, The pearl”

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• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Party, People, Four

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• We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

  Dennis Miller

  Country, Fighting, People

  The Toronto Star Magazine, June 13, 2004.

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• I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

  Lord Byron

  Mutual

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• I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Thinking, Political

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• Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

  Noam Chomsky

  Nature, Believe, Hero

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.502, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

  Helen Clark

  Strong, Lying, Aversion

  Valedictory Speech in Parliament, www.infonews.co.nz. April 08, 2009.

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• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  E. W. Howe

  Lying, Deceit, Printed

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• One thing I detest, I have to say, is when a shoe is too soft, and it's molding to the foot. This is quite disgusting. And I really, really hate incredibly long shoes, where the last is very pointy, almost like Aladdin.

  Christian Louboutin

  Hate, Shoes, Feet

  "Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.

  John Lydon

  Example, Fascists, Pops

  "Johnny Rotten Praises Battling Bands, Trashes Internet Liars". Interview With Eliot Van Buskirk, www.wired.com. September 3, 2007.

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• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Shy, Literature

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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• The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Alarms, Speech

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Diary of H. L. Mencken”, p.635, Vintage

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• I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

  William S. Burroughs

  Police, Kind, Ass

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Half

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• He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

  Mark Twain

  Way, Taught, Dishonor

  George Washington Cable, Mark Twain, Arlin Turner (1960). “Mark Twain [and] G. W. Cable: the record of a literary friendship”

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• I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Excellence, Lawyer, Length

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