Top 31 Deplored Quotes
#1. Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#2. To be alone is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#3. The Madame deplored fat men. They had no laps, and of what use is a lapless human? Nevertheless, she gave him the common courtesy of a sniff at his trouser cuffs and immediately backed away, twitching her nose and showing her teeth.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#4. Certainly many Northern cities deplored what was going on in the South. But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.
John Howard Griffin
#5. I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.
Edward Brooke
#6. Letty's first false step was here: she said to herself _I can not_, and did not. She lacked courage--a want in her case not much to be wondered at, but much to be deplored, for courage of the true sort is just as needful to the character of a woman as of a man.
George MacDonald
#7. All my adult life I have deplored violence and war as instruments for achieving solutions to mankind's problems. I am firmly committed to the creative power of nonviolence as the force which is capable of winning lasting and meaningful brotherhood and peace.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#8. It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored.
Bram Stoker
#9. I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.
Edmund White
#10. Personal dislike as a political end to itself was alien to her; one should not attack people in public except as for political purposes. To this extent, her attitude was the exact opposite of her German colleagues' who deplored personal politics in public, but respected personal dislike.
John Peter Nettl
#11. We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium ... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness ... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.
Thomas Jefferson
#12. Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
Gore Vidal
#13. I doubt if there is any occupation which is more consistently and unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored than banking.
William Proxmire
#14. We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.
Owen D. Young
#15. Give the slave the least elevation of religious sentiment, and he is not slave: you are the slave: he not only in his humility feels his superiority, feels that much deplored condition of his to be a fading trifle, but he makes you feel it too. He is the master.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.
Henry Hazlitt
#18. Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction
that would not be anything to be deplored
but a weakness of conviction.
Franz Kafka
#20. God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
Walter Scott
#21. I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.
Clemence Poesy
#22. Me too!" Frank said. "I mean ... lactose intolerant. Not a reptile. Though I can be a reptile sometimes -
Rick Riordan
#23. You cannot write an accurate history of The Holocaust without accounting for the Harvard students and professors that help make the science an acceptable world-wide movement.
A.E. Samaan
#24. If I tell you something, you will stick to it and limit your own capacity to find out for yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
#25. I love you because I can be honest with you. I trust you. I love you because you've made me see I'm more than I thought.
Barbara Elsborg
#26. We've yet to comprehend the impervious reality that to gain 'life' we have to do the most scandalous thing imaginable, and that is to work 'against' the whole of our humanity and give everything away. And yet to give everything away is to work 'with' the whole of God's character.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#27. To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement.
Hayley Wickenheiser
#28. A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear ... than a fact that he wishes was an opinion.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#31. My sister, I have a sister who's 12 years older, she was always the party girl, the outrageous one.
Selma Blair
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