Derogatory Quotes

• Children, do not listen to those who malign masters and sages. Never listen to or indulge in derogatory talk about anyone. When we harbor negative thoughts about others, our minds become impure.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Indulge In, Mind

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• When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

  Jim Otto

  Hurt, Raiders

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• A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showed me that the personal resentment of the Detroit general manager toward me would make it impossible for me to continue playing hockey in Detroit.

  Ted Lindsay

  Attitude, Hockey, Rumor

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• It appears to me that our sex is only discussed publicly in a derogatory manner. The respectable woman is doomed to anonymity.

  Karen Essex

  Sex, Respectable, Doomed

  Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.146, Anchor

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mean, Adjectives

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• I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour.

  William Ralph Inge

  God, Should, Humour

  "Outspoken Essays" (Second Series) by William Ralph Inge, ("Confessio Fidei"), 1922.

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• But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Morning, Wall

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

  Ted Turner

  Fighting, Use, Want

  "Ted's tears". Interview with Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2002.

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• Let us hear the dangers of thralldom to our consciences from ignorance, extreme poverty, and dependence; in short, from civil and political slavery. Let us see delineated before us the true map of man. Let us hear the dignity of his nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God-that consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest or happiness-and that God Almighty has promulgated from heaven liberty, peace, and goodwill to man!

  John Adams

  Peace, Ignorance, Men

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• We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  People, Nonviolent Communication, Feels

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• A Trumpist is a devoted supporter and understands what he or she is doing. A Trumper is just different sounding, better sounding, I think. I've even had some Trumpists tell me they don't like the term. They think it's derogatory.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Different, Term

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There must be a balance of honesty and charity in the workshop. Everyone must be aware of a fellow human being behind the work being discussed, and criticism has to be useful, not just derogatory or laudatory.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Honesty, Teaching, Criticism

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• Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Heart, Mean

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• I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, People, Judging

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There is nothing derogatory in any employment which ministers to the well-being of the race. It is the spirit that is carried into an employment that elevates or degrades it.

  Horace Mann

  Work, Race, Employment

  Horace Mann (1850). “A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: A Lecture, Delivered Before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on Its 29th Anniversary”, p.47

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• I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social life and cultureof their epoch. They seem to accept a dogma of immaculate conception of philosophical systems.

  John Dewey

  Philosophical, Ideas, Links

  John Dewey, Larry Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander (1998). “The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy”, p.214, Indiana University Press

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• The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

  Rene Dubos

  Mother, Three, Earth

  René Jules Dubos (1980). “The Wooing of Earth”, Scribner Book Company

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• The only person on the planet saying derogatory things about his woman is the black man.

  Dick Gregory

  Men, Black, Planets

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• I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Real, Talking, Names

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• I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

  Clare Balding

  Thinking, Ambitious, Adjectives

  "'I'm going to glam up': Clare Balding nervous ahead of prime time TV role" by Simon Boyle, www.mirror.co.uk. December 28, 2012.

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• Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Christianity, Reason

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• The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Son, Men

  Thomas Paine (2016). “COMMON SENSE (Political Classics Series): Advocating Independence to People in the Thirteen Colonies - Addressed to the Inhabitants of America”, p.598, e-artnow

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• A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

  Diane Duane

  Tunnels, White, Space

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of momentum. And I don't mean this in a derogatory way. I'm always wanting it to pick up momentum, and I'm wondering if that's even possible.

  Guy Pearce

  Mean, Thinking, Unfortunate Things

  "Q+A: Guy Pearce, Man with a Gun". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. May 21, 2012.

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• I note the derogatory rumors concerning the use of alcoholic stimulants and lavish living. It is the penalty of greatness.

  W. C. Fields

  Greatness, Rumor, Use

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.143, Rowman & Littlefield

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