Despised Quotes

• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Warrior, Feelings, Defense

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.74, Basic Books

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• What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

  Hu Shih

  Beauty, People, Groups

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• A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

  George Muller

  Mean Girls, Servant Of God, World

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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 am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  Saint Patrick

  Eye, Faithful, Sinner

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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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• Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Wells, Feels

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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

  Saint Patrick

  May, Despise, Worthy

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

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspiration, Enthusiasm For Life, Enthusiasm

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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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• 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.'

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Confusion

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• God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Workmen, Persons

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• Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Law, Fool

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• If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

  Thomas Paine

  Political, Politics, Wells

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.51

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• Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrite, Views, Hypocrisy

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• Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Proud, Hated, Foe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.209, e-artnow

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• The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Men, Wish, Poverty

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• No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Politician, British

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• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Motivational, Fear, Inspiration

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• Which was worse: a friend with brain damage, or one who despised you?

  Scott Westerfeld

  Brain, Damage

  Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Men, Reason

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• Who wants to kill you?” the guy asked. He was still looking over his shoulder, but his expression was puzzled. “There’s nobody there,” the girlfriend told me. “You’re making them think they can’t see you, aren’t you?” I said to Patch, awed by his power even as I despised his use of it.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Girlfriend, Thinking, Expression

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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• Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Simple, Effort, Social

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