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• The rights of citizenship will be taken away from all Jews and other non-Aryans. They are inferior and therefore enemies of the state. It is the duty of all true Aryans to hate and despise them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Taken, Rights

  "Fictional character: Garbitsch". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
  [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Happiness, Men, Liberty

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• A wise traveler never despises his own country.
  [It., Un viaggiatore prudente non disprezza mai il suo paese.]

  Carlo Goldoni

  Wise, Country, Travel

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• I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

  Kristin Hunter

  Christmas, Hate, People

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• Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Book, Law, Religion

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• It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

  Edward Jenks

  Stars, Character, Men

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  R. A. Salvatore

  People, Expectations, Burden

  R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.176, Wizards of the Coast

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  Ian Frazier

  Texas, Feelings, Secret

  "On Texas" by Ian Frazier, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Ronald Reagan basically legalized every illegal immigrant in this country. I just like to bring this up because every week I like to make Republican heads explode about how they love Ronald Reagan, but would despise everything he did.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Republican, Week

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• I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving, Silence, Charity

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.215, Macmillan

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• Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Atheist, Church, Answers

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• I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and observation, I have become convinced that industry is a better horse to ride than genius. It may never carry any man as far as genius has carried individuals, but industry-patient, steady, intelligent industry-will carry thousands into comfort, and even celebrity; and this it does with absolute certainty.

  Walter Lippmann

  Horse, Intelligent, Men

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• Although I went to college as a youth, I never considered it necessary to steep oneself in academic learning, in order to learn how to think. I welcome a fair and square, open and above-board fight on any subject, including this, but I despise a man who sneaks around under a cloak or cover of any society or clique to strike his blows.

  Luther Burbank

  Fighting, Blow, College

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• I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

  Pope Gregory I

  Thinking, Scary, Oracles

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• Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will revere women, or despise them, or remain generally indifferent to them.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mother, Women, Indifferent

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• The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

  Oswald Spengler

  Eye, Men, Suffering

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• She had made the choice for him - in a moment of flight and panic, but she had made it - not realizing that her Jace would rather die than be like this, and that she'd been not so much saving his life as damning him to an existence he would despise.

  Cassandra Clare

  Choices, Saving, Panic

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.476, Simon and Schuster

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• I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

  Norman Hartnell

  Beautiful, Simplicity, Negation

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• Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Light, Rocks

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• My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.

  Tony Kushner

  Whole Life, Whole, I Can

  Tony Kushner (2013). “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition”, p.81, Theatre Communications Group

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• If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Thinking, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.100, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

  George Washington

  Running, Real, Patriotic

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• why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

  David Mitchell

  Beautiful, Needs, Humans

  David Mitchell (2007). “Number9Dream: A Novel”, p.209, Random House

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• I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity for self-pity and so am free of that sweet baseness. I doubt I am. Being me’s no joke.

  John Barth

  Sweet, Self, Play

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• The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Men, Ordinary

  Yukio Mishima (1969). “Thirst for love”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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