Themes

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

"...yet when someone like me comes along and shows your hypocrisy and the dangers of that hypocrisy, and of the willingness of prevaricating lobbyists like Hal Halpin to hide what the industry does and how it does it, then you all want to "ban" me from my rejoinders."

"You come from one of the latter and you're being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you might imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence."

"Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon."

"I shall listen with great pleasure, for I too am not one to despise myths, and I am far from rejecting those that have the right tendency; indeed I am of the same opinion as you and your admired, or rather the universally admired, Plato."

"People like leaders who look like they are dominant, optimistic, friendly to their friends, and quick on the trigger when it comes to enemies. They like boldness and despise the appearance of timidity and protracted doubt."

"They have created a people who do not know their own culture, but still are ready to despise it. They know nothing about Islam but say bad things about it. They cannot understand a simple poem but criticize it with."

"When the Head and the members are despised, then the Whole Christ is despised, for the Whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak."

"They despise the immediate as trivial; I know that it is trivial, but cherish rather than despise it — because everything, including infinity itself, is trivial."

"This doctrine raises social life, inasmuch as it teaches us to hate no man, neither to despise, to deride, to envy, or to be angry with any."

"In ordinary life, nothing is truly great which it is great to despise; wealth, honor, reputation, absolute power — anything in short which has a lot of external trappings."

"Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war."

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up."

"You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise."

"Others sense their own laws within them; things are forbidden to them that every honorable man will do any day in the year and other things are allowed to them that are generally despised?"

"Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother Like all women, being very fond of indigestible things Presence of a woman, that sovereign inspiration Spirit of order and arithmetic in the business house Subtleties of expression to describe the most improper things Thin veneer of modesty of every woman Thrill of furious and bestial anger which urges on a mob to massacre."

"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth If what most men admire, they would despise, 'T would look as if mankind were growing wise. The [[Sun never repents of the good he does, nor does he ever demand a recompence. An old young man, will be a young old man."

"I knew other people who were at the time desperate and suicidal. They despised life and detested all other living people. In a way that made me feel a little bit secure. Because I thought, well, maybe I'm not so intense after all."

"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.'"

"I, then, will load my humble pack with this despised and rejected merchandise, the refuse of so many buyers; and will go about to distribute it, not indeed in great cities, but in the poorer towns, taking such a price as the wares I offer maybe worth."

"...and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation."

"Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves."

"It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect."

"Nor am I of those who despise dreamers. For the world would be at the level of zero were it not for its dreamers - gone and of today."

"Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them."

"...the rights of them the others are down upon, Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised, Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung."

"We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary."

"...when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger."

"John Rawls's argument that all are equally worthy of self-esteem "is almost a parody of this tendency, writing hundreds of pages to persuade men, and proposing a scheme of government that would force them, not to despise anyone."

"We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue."

"He was not an ascetic, but he despised luxury and the pursuit of artificial pleasures of the senses."

"Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge."

"...such a one is agitated with a salutary astonishment; is affected with the highest and truest love; derides vehement affections and inferior loves, and despises the beauty which he once approved."

"It is strong evidence of this that noble souls despise being for the sake of the good, when they face death for their country or friends or for the sake of virtue."

"We despise toadies who suck up to their bosses; they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates."

"Doubtless the Revivalists and Socialists despise each other, and perhaps both will despise us for imagining that they can be reconciled."

"...but I think 1 can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice or folly has made them my foes — Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed."

"We ought not to be angry at their knowing our faults and despising us; it is but right that they should know us for what we are contemptible."

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them."

"Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."

"The revolutionary despises public opinion; he despises and hates the existing social ethic in all its demands and expressions."

"They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise."

"...He suffered more pain than all men of salvation that ever were from the first beginning unto the last day might tell or fully think, having regard to the worthiness of the highest worshipful King and the shameful, despised, painful death. For He that is highest and worthiest was most fully made-nought and mostly utterly despised."

"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."

"We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part."

"If perchance there should be foolish speakers who, together with those ignorant of all mathematics, will take it upon themselves to decide concerning these things, and because of some place in the Scriptures wickedly distorted to their purpose, should dare to assail this my work, they are of no importance to me, to such an extent do I despise their judgment as rash."

"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."