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• I have an intellectual inclination for democratic institutions, but I am instinctively an aristocrat, which means that I despise and fear the masses. I passionately love liberty, legality, the respect for rights, but not democracy....liberty is my foremost passion. That is the truth.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Mean, Passion, Rights

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• We all tend to go to extremes; some rely only on their own preparation and look for nothing more; others, as I say, tend to despise preparation and trust to the unction, the anointing and the inspiration of the Spirit alone. But there must be no "either/or" here; it is always "both/and." These two things must go together.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Inspiration, Two, Preparation

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1972). “Preaching and Preachers”, p.305, Zondervan

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• All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Mother, Trying, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• Love that is ignorant and hatred have almost the same ends.

  Ben Jonson

  Hate, Hatred, Ignorant

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3181, Delphi Classics

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• You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to men by doing violence to your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes, especially shutting your eyes. Endure their villainy without anger, as much as possible; try to remember that you're a man too. For, if you're even a little above average intelligence, you'll have the propensity to judge people severely. Men are vile by nature and they'd rather love out of fear. Don't give in to such love: despise it always.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Eye, Boys

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• So efficient are the available instruments of slavery; fingerprints, lie detectors, brain washings, gas chambers; that we shiver at the thought of political change which might put these instruments in the hands of men of hate.

  Bernard Baruch

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Music, God

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• Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Flattery, Nevertheless, Flattered

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.206

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• We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Answers, Opinion

  Conversation with George Sewall Boutwell concerning the nomination of Salmon P. Chase to the U.S. Supreme Court, reported by Boutwell in his "Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs", vol. 2, (p. 29), 1902.

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• When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Law, Feminism

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.57, Booklassic

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• Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation, - we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this worth the striving? Would America have been America without her Negro People?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Song, Cheer, Blood

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• I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Brother, Strong, Father

  W.E.B. Du Bois, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “W. E. B. Du Bois: Selections from His Writings”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

  Anne Bronte

  Song, Long, Should

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• That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

  Albert Einstein

  Business, Mistake, Men

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, Gains, Nuance

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.233, Modern Library

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• I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence, Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it, We scared of almost everything, afraid to even tell the truth, So scared of what you think of me, I'm scared of even telling you...

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, Silence, Violence

  "Song: Words I Never Said (Lasers)". February 8, 2011.

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• The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Children, Husband

  "Luther's Works: Lectures on Genesis".

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• When you stand with the outcasts, you stand with Jesus, and when you despise the outcast, you despise Jesus, as well. Becoming an activist is simply a matter of putting love into action.

  Mel White

  Jesus, Matter, Becoming

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• Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Ifs

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• As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

  Mao Zedong

  People, Communist, Should

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: v. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.765, Routledge

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• Fear is such a weak emotion that’s why I despise it

  Lupe Fiasco

  Emotion, Weak, Fiasco

  Song: Words I Never Said, Album: Lasers, 2011

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• It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.156, Courier Corporation

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• All pleasures must be paid for, do not despise those that state their price.

  Amin Maalouf

  Pleasure, States, Paid

  Amin Maalouf (1994). “The Rock of Tanios”, George Braziller

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• So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.

  Daniel Keyes

  Knowing, Able, Persons

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

  David Horowitz

  Ideas, Viewpoints, Politics

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