Detest Quotes

• I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

  Nelson Mandela

  Equality, Men, White Man

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Hate, Men

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 13, st. 4.

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• Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

  J. K. Rowling

  Bigotry

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• Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

  Voltaire

  Funny, Life, Writing

  "Timeline: a history of free speech" by David Smith, Luc Torres, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2006.

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• I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

  Stephen Leacock

  Funny, Life, Business

  Literary Lapses (1910) "Insurance up to Date"

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• I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sleep, Men, Goal

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• I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

  Ken Livingstone

  Loathe

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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  After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Oct 27, 2015

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals: for instance, I hate the tribe of lawyers, but I love Counsellor Such-a-one, and Judge Such-a-one: so with physicians - I will not speak of my own trade - soldiers, English, Scotch, French, and the rest. But principally I hate and detest that animal called man, although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. This is the system upon which I have governed myself many years, but do not tell.

  Jonathan Swift

  Hate, Animal, Love Is

  Jonathan Swift (2016). “Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff. When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish allusions.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Children, Believe, Book

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• The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

  H. L. Mencken

  Success, Truth, Liars

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

  Galileo Galilei

  Heart, Errors, Catholic

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• I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Temptation, Why Not

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• If your parents were strong in one way and weak in another, you will be strong in the same way and weak in the same way. Even though you detest the weakness in them, you will find that you will do exactly the same things because they imprinted you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Parent

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• For every negative, there's a positive. It's in everything. How you deal with life, outlook, how much energy you put into achieving something. That's why I detest entitlement. Anything that's worthwhile is going to call for some sacrifice. Nothing worthwhile will come to you without a price. People think in sports, you have different rules. You really don't. It's whatever motivates you.

  Mario Andretti

  Sports, Sacrifice, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am reconciled to my death, but I detest the mode.

  John Andre

  John André (1903). “André's Journal: An Authentic Record of the Movements and Engagements of the British Army in America from June 1777 to November 1778 as Recorded from Day to Day by Major John André”

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• Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

  Dan Barker

  Ego, Life Is Like, Purpose

  Dan Barker (2011). “The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-filled Life Without God”, p.29, Ulysses Press

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• I most often land up taking up the roles that I most detest.

  Christine Lahti

  Land, Roles, Chance

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• There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Quality, Saint, Moral

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

  Noel Coward

  Dog, Sleep, Mad

  'Mad Dogs and Englishmen' (1931 song)

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• I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

  John Lahr

  Magic, Theatre, Culture

  Kenneth Tynan, John Lahr (2002). “The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan”, p.21, A&C Black

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• Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

  Thomas Paine

  Wickedness, Age Of Reason, Sincerely

  Thomas Paine (1934). “The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations”, New York : .H. Wise

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• Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.504

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• I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Believe, Home, Balance

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