Despised Quotes

• What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

  Hu Shih

  Beauty, People, Groups

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• Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

  Alice Miller

  Warrior, Feelings, Defense

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.74, Basic Books

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• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  Saint Patrick

  Eye, Faithful, Sinner

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• A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

  George Muller

  Mean Girls, Servant Of God, World

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• The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Lost Friendship, World

  'The Plain Speaker' (1826) 'On the Pleasure of Hating'

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• If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

  Noam Chomsky

  Inspirational, Relationship, Freedom

  Interview with John Pilger on BBC's "The Late Show", November 25, 1992.

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• Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising.

  Aldous Huxley

  Looks, Wells, Feels

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Acceptance

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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• Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Inspiration, Enthusiasm For Life, Enthusiasm

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• If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.

  Saint Patrick

  May, Despise, Worthy

  Saint Patrick, Saint Secundinus (Bp. in Ireland) (1953). “The works of St. Patrick. Hymn on St. Patrick”

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fear, Hate, Men

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Philosophical, Dying

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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• God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Workmen, Persons

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• The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  Laozi

  Leadership, People, Confusion

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• Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Law, Fool

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• If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

  Thomas Paine

  Political, Politics, Wells

  Thomas Paine (1791). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.51

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• Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrite, Views, Hypocrisy

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• Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Proud, Hated, Foe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.209, e-artnow

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• It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Men, Reason

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• Thomas Jefferson despised newspapers, with considerable justification. They printed libels and slanders about him that persist to the present day. Yet he famously said that if he had to choose between government without newspapers and newspapers without government, he would cheerfully choose to live in a land with newspapers (even not very good ones) and no government.

  Wesley Pruden

  Government, Land, Newspapers

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• It's a blessed thing to die daily. For what is there in this world to be accounted of! The best men according to the flesh, and things, are lighter than vanity. I find this only good, to love the Lord and his poor despised people, to do for them and to be ready to suffer with them....and he that is found worthy of this hath obtained great favour from the Lord; and he that is established in this shall ( being conformed to Christ and the rest of the Body) participate in the glory of a resurrection which will answer all.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Blessed, Men, Vanity

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.244

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• Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Law, Justice, Legal System

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter.

  Mark Twain

  Daughter, America, Envy

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.80, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

  Alice Munro

  Romance, Attention, Notion

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of course. Father had it, and then Richard. But money was imputed to me, the same way crimes are imputed to those who've simply been present at them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Father, Littles, Way

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.144, Anchor

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