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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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

  Saint Patrick

  May, Worthy, Teach

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

  Linda Chavez

  White, People, Black

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

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Princess, Hatred

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.204, Penguin

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• 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

  Hate, Lost Friendship, World

  'The Plain Speaker' (1826) 'On the Pleasure of Hating'

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

  Hedy Lamarr

  Art, Enemy, Conventions

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• God knows that we should not despise anything. We must do our best.

  Georges Bernanos

  Should, God Knows, Knows

  "Joy". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1929.

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• With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mind, Relief, Stones

  Saturday Review, 26 Sept. 1896

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• There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

  Gordon Allport

  Hate, Oxford, Stories

  Gordon Willard Allport (1958). “The Nature of Prejudice”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wise, Science, Astrology

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1766). “The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates, with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory”, p.194

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• If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

  Henry Arthur Jones

  Hate, Men, Civilization

  Henry Arthur Jones (1925). “Representative Plays: Michael and his lost angel. The liars. Mrs. Dane's defence. The hypocrites”

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• Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

  Voltaire

  Hate, Men, Objectivity

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• You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

  John C. Maxwell

  Destiny, Your Destiny, Our Destiny

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vices, Virtue, Vice And Virtue

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• To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  Quentin Crisp

  Forgiving, Knows, Crisps

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 9, 1968.

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• Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

  Abraham Cowley

  Vanity, People, Solitude

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• Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".

  Dale Carnegie

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Upset

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.69, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Acceptance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Philosophical, Dying

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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• In the name of religion, one tortures, persecutes, builds pyres. In the guise of ideologies, one massacres, tortures and kills. In the name of justice one punishes...in the name of love of one's country or of one's race hates other countries, despises them, massacres them. In the name of equality and brotherhood there is suppression and torture. There is nothing in common between the means and the end, the means go far beyond the end...ideologies and religion... are the alibis of the means.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Country, Hate, Mean

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Men, Vices

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• You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

  Aesop

  Hate, Enemy, Bald Man

  Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”

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• Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

  J. C. Ryle

  Children, Believe, Learning

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• Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself;
  Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.

  Horace

  Wise, Strong, Freedom

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