A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.James Baldwin
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If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.Virgil
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I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.Theodor Herzl
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A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.Saint Ambrose
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Freedom of speech means freedom for those who you despise, and freedom to express the most despicable views. It also means that the government cannot pick and choose which expressions to authorize and which to prevent.Alan Dershowitz
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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.Otto Weininger
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Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.Camille Paglia
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I don't want people to say, 'So, what do you think about that Cher?' and for them to reply, 'She's okay.' Okay is not good enough. I want them to either love me or to completely despise me - I mean, call me all the names under the sun. I love it.Cher Lloyd
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There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.Charlize Theron
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Fashion is very important to me. I dress androgynously - I absolutely despise dresses and skirts and tights - and I started wearing glasses in the third grade.Marley Dias
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.Alexis de Tocqueville
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I despise lackadaisical behavior when it comes to our music. I mean, this is heavy metal music. You must be involved. You're required to be involved.David Draiman
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It's totally irrational, patently insane to condemn an entire race - to despise an entire nation - to vilify an entire religion.Stan Lee
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The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we've lost would bore him. Acknowledging the victims of COVID-19 would be to associate himself with their weakness, a trait his father taught him to despise.Mary L. Trump
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.George Washington
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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.'Lao Tzu
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I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.Werner Herzog
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.Boris Pasternak
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.Aleister Crowley
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In 'The Secret Agent,' it's basically a character that was admired by Theodore Kaczynski, which is some fan mail you don't really want to open. This is a man who is a chemist and who specializes in making bombs and despises humanity.Robin Williams
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Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.Hunter S. Thompson
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I'm 5ft 1in and despise being small. People think I'm cute and cuddly, and I'm not.Toyah Willcox
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Why is our own participation in scapegoating so difficult to perceive and the participation of others so easy? To us, our fears and prejudices never appear as such because they determine our vision of people we despise, we fear, and against whom we discriminate.Rene Girard
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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.Thomas Huxley
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The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.Emily Carr
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I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.George Stevens
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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.Daniel Kahneman
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I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.Ram Gopal Varma
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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
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.Andre Maurois
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I have always been into fitness but never into running, in fact, I used to despise it. I'd look at people that ran and think they were crazy.Andi Dorfman
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Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad; one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise.Julie Burchill
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If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.Noam Chomsky
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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.Abraham Maslow
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I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.Wole Soyinka
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The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man's fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy.Chrysippus
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Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.Thucydides
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Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.Ryan Holiday
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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.Mary Wortley Montagu
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I've spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long time. It has made people almost literally insane, even those who make a great show of repudiating it. Those people, like novelists, who can no longer enjoy this status are condemned to despise it.Lawrence Osborne
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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.Charles Caleb Colton
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