Despise Quotes - Page 27

• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

  William Cowper

  Strong, Attitude, Men

  William Cowper (1853). “The Works of William Cowper”, p.29

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• It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."

  Enoch Powell

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 504), 1999.

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• Though you are weak and frail, though you are poor and helpless, God does not despise you; but would glorify your being with His own, and raise you to fellowship with Himself.

  George C. Lorimer

  Doe, Fellowship, Poor

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 247), 1895.

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• Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Made, Despicable, Impressed

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

  John Calvin

  Hatred, Desire, Common

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.

  Roger Scruton

  Beauty, Clouds, Fleeting

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• Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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• I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather gone beyond bravery. It is a kind of warfare where people are fighting enemies they never see, killing people of whom they know nothing.

  Robertson Davies

  Fighting, Thinking, People

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• One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd.

  Carl Jung

  Powerful, Greatness, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Beatrice M. Hinkle (2003). “Psychology of the Unconscious”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Self, Firsts

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.96, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

  Edmund Spenser

  Eye, Common

  Edmund Spenser (1822). “The poems of Edmund Spenser”, p.252

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• I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

  Timothy Leary

  Followers, Kind, Follow Me

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.91, Ronin Publishing

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• Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Brother, Love Always

  Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Mademoiselle Fifi and Other Stories - Bilingual Edition (English / French): An Adventure in Paris, Boule de Suif, Rust, Marroca, The Log, The Relic, Words of Love, Christmas Eve, Two Friends, Am I Insane?...”, p.81, e-artnow

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• Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

  Austin O'Malley

  Liars, Saint, Riches

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• How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Noble Man, Bridges

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.475, Modern Library

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• Because, to despise money, one must have plenty of it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Plenty

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.78, Transaction Publishers

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• Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eye, World, Way

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.78

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• I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

  Lin Yutang

  Philosophy, Views, Objectivity

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• I am circumcised, and I tell you something, I despise it. I despise it. I despise it... I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised.

  Howard Stern

  Atheist, Pissed Off

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• Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

  Jonathan Swift

  Pride, Despised

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• Despise pleasure; pleasure bought by pain in injurious.

  Horace

  Pain, Pleasure

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• I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

  El Greco

  Art, Suffering, Praise

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• Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

  Brennan Manning

  Father, Men, Grace

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• I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

  Iggy Pop

  Art, Lying, Crazy

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