Despicable Quotes - Page 5

• The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Past, Eight

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think it's despicable. I also think it's frightening that we seem to live through history over and over again. And I don't know if I'm the only one. I feel like, when you read through history books, you always judge those people in that time.

  Trevor Noah

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• One of my jobs as an actor, regardless of who I play - even if I'm playing a despicable character - is to make people think that that character could exist, that he's real, and the way to do that is to make him believable. He doesn't have to be likable or charming, but he just has to be believable. That is someone who I could see on a bus. That is someone who I could walk past in the street.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Jobs, Real, Character

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

  Finn Andrews

  Thinking, Done, Courses

  "Coup De Main x NZ On Air | The Veils". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.

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• There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable.

  James Gould Cozzens

  Wise, Men, Brave

  James Gould Cozzens (1948). “Guard of Honor”

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• Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Men, Giving

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2017). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (Modern Classics Series): The Magnum Opus of the World’s Most Influential Philosopher, Revolutionary Thinker and the Author of The Antichrist, The Birth of Tragedy & Beyond Good and Evil”, p.23, e-artnow

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• I would never say they look exactly the same, but what I would say is that the differences are not enough to save your job, to save your life, or to save the planet. And what we have right now is a race to the bottom, between the greater and lesser evil. [Donald] Trump is a very dangerous and despicable demagogue. However, you know, policy for policy, Hillary's [Clinton] are also extremely dangerous.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Differences, Race

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they're doing isn't right you still care for their fate.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Fate, Care

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.

  Walton Goggins

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Contempt, Despised

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• I'm not saying that all women are blameless - all women are not. There are women with despicable characters who are cruel and terrible and some of them are mothers. But why do we blame our mothers more than our fathers? We let our fathers get away scot-free. We hardly even knew who they were in many cases, given the way this culture raises kids, and they may have been quite cruel. They may even have raped us as children, but even if they raped us, we will blame our mothers for not protecting us instead of blaming our fathers who actually did it.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The moral man is necessarily narrow in that he knows no other enemy than the immoral man. He who is not moral is immoral! and accordingly reprobate, despicable, etc. Therefore, the moral man can never comprehend the egoist.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Enemy, Etc

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• Despicable creatures, vultures: without a doubt the most disgusting birds ever. I suppose they served their purpose, but did they have to be so greasy and ugly? Couldn't we have cute fuzzy rabbits that cleaned up roadkill instead?

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Bird, Doubt

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• Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the Doppelschläferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Art, War, Princess

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• How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, War, Pieces

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• He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Country, Peace

  "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.

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• A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

  Matthew Henry

  Atheist, Animal, Men

  Matthew Henry, J.B Williams (1828). “Exposition of the Old and New Testament”, p.145

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• I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.

  Russell Brand

  School, Tv Shows, Office

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Racist, Bob, Host

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• What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hurt, Mean, Thinking

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• Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Humanity, Needs, Tools

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

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• I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, May, Speak

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.70, A&C Black

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• I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

  Len Wein

  Character, Trying, Lenses

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mean, Government, Views

  "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

  Eddie Vedder

  Marketing, Jam, Pearls

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