Despise People Quotes

#1. I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

Mary Gaitskill

#2. I don't despise people.

Will.i.am

#3. 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

#4. Can't really despise people you don't know.

Richard D. James

#5. You should never despise people because they haven't had your opportunities.

Lian Hearn

#6. You're bubbly and approachable.".... "I'm none of those things. The sarcastic wit and humorous charm is a front. I honestly despise people. I like to consider myself as more of a dictator that staff are confident in but scared to approach.

Eden Summers

#7. I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.

A.C. Grayling

#8. I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.

Robert Smith

#9. I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs

August Strindberg

#10. I despise people who can't control themselves.

Truman Capote

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

Alexis De Tocqueville

#12. Life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.

John Grisham

#13. Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#14. I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

Kristin Hunter

#15. If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Carl Rogers

#16. I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Chuck Klosterman

#17. I'm not one to despise other people for their sins. I haven't found one yet, that I didn't say to myself, I've done worse than this.

Orson Scott Card

#18. It is only, or at any rate it is chiefly, the literary and scientific intelligentsia, the very people who ought to be the guardians of liberty, who are beginning to despise it, in theory as well as in practice.

George Orwell

#19. Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.

Bruce Lee

#20. There is great nobility in ordinary people. The world disappoints us all, and the ways we change our own stories to survive that disappointment are beautiful and tragic and hilarious. On balance, I find much more to admire about humanity than to despise.

Daniel Abraham

#21. We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

R.A. Salvatore

#22. It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

Alexander Hamilton

#23. The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#24. You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

Marcel Duchamp

#25. There are days when I am haunted by a feeling that is blacker than the blackest melancholy. I have a contempt for humanity. I despise the people I have been fated to call my contemporaries. I feel suffocated by their filthy breath.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#26. The point is not to give people a break. The point is to tell all the truth you can bear about them and not despise them, not to be a kumbaya kind of guy.

Rob Nilsson

#27. 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

#28. We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Marilyn Monroe

#29. Examining the actual contents of my crying, I found a quailing sludge emotion, with a foul insecticide taste. If it was a peanut, you would spit it out. Yet I was indulging this toxic goo, giving it its head and letting it dictate my actions. People had every good reason to despise me.

Sandra Newman

#30. There are only two distinct classes of people on this earth, those who espouse enthusiasm and those who despise it.

Madame De Stael

#31. The only way to ensure that you and those you agree with have the right to speak is to support the right to speak of those you despise or do not like - the people with whom you do not agree.

Pamela Wallin

#32. I had a life with people who I would die for! You've ruined everything. I despise you," he spat.
"You're supposed to despise him," Arjuro muttered. "He's your father.

Melina Marchetta

#33. The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days!

Upton Sinclair

#34. If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.

Noam Chomsky

#35. Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

James Weldon Johnson

#36. I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

Martin Luther

#37. What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

Janet Fitch

#38. Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#39. For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

Linda Chavez

#40. The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Eustace Budgell

#41. We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us.

Mark Twain

#42. I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

Will Oldham

#43. People who work in offices are crazy, they create an environment they hate, write rules they want to break, cast each other in roles they despise. It's like they're sixth formers in an end of term drama acting out the agony of everything they fear most in their life but they forget to end the play.

Helen Smith

#44. If you are despised, then know that this makes you God's candidate to defeat the strong people of this world and put the wise to shame.

Sunday Adelaja

#45. I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

Edward Abbey

#46. The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue ... There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.

Margot Asquith

#47. If hate, the antonym of love, is one strong word that we all know it exist but despise, why do people like playing with LOVE like it's nonentity?

PK Gyewu Akrofi

#48. Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#49. 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

#50. People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

Merlin Mann

#51. You don't know what it's like to worry you'll start to despise the people who help you, the ones you should love, because they're healthy and you're not, because they're kind and you're this angry, frustrated . . . thing.

Tracy Guzeman

#52. Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Abraham Cowley

#53. The bad leader is he who the people despise; the good leader is he who the people praise; the great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves

Peter M. Senge

#54. Deep down, people who deliberately distribute other people's music and stuff feel contempt for professionals. And it's not just culture - these days lots of people are contemptuous of everything. Without realizing it, they're searching for things to despise.

Fuminori Nakamura

#55. Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#56. Extraordinary creatures you young people are, altogether. The past you hate, the present you despise, and the future is a matter of indifference. How do you suppose that can lead to any good end?

Erich Maria Remarque

#57. I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#58. You love the Hawaiians as potential Christians, but you despise them as people. I am proud to say that I have come to exactly the opposite conclusion, and it is therefore appropriate that I should be expelled from a mission where love is not.

James A. Michener

#59. Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#60. Foolish people ... When I say foolish people in this contemptuous way, I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there's one person I do despise more than another, it's the man who doesn't think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Jerome K. Jerome

#61. Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple - no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

Jean Rhys

#62. It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.

Thucydides

#63. I'd rather be alone and be happy with my own company than be somebody I'm not so I can fit in with people whose company I despise.

Lorelei James

#64. When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Benjamin Disraeli

#66. Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude ...

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#67. Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American Libertarianism. Have these people seriously looked at the problems of the world and thought, 'Hmm, what we need here is a bit more selfishness'? . . . I beg to differ.

Iain Banks

#68. As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.

Mao Zedong

#69. What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

Charlotte Bronte

#70. The Larks are the sort of people who trot out their relationships with "good Indians," whom they secretly despise and openly patronize, in order to prove their general love for Indians, whom they are engaged in cheating.

Louise Erdrich

#71. People who have been taught to despise themselves cannot easily respect others.

Karen Armstrong

#72. I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.

Graydon Carter

#73. People generally despise where they flatter.

Aristotle.

#74. I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#75. Soul mates are muses. The people in your life you despise, disrespect and desire the most.

Coco J. Ginger

#76. People grow up loving the Yankees and will tell you, and so many people despise the Yankees, and they come from all over the United States.

Curtis Granderson

#77. Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Thomas More

#78. There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

Taylor Branch

#79. It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

Madame Roland

#80. Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or don't do, and more in light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#81. People despise the lust for power that originates from a craving for homage and for the attributes of power.

Konstantin Ushinsky

#82. I have a confession to make.
I hate voir dire.
I despise prying into other people's lives because I wouldn't want them prying into mine.

Paul Levine

#83. Truthfully, I despise hotels. I've had such better experiences staying at people's houses and guesthouses; it's so much more comfortable and homey.

Rob Machado

#84. The American people are not remarkable for moderation. They despise halfness. They will go with him who goes farthest and stay with him who stays longest. What the country thinks of half-men and half-measures is seen by the last election. We repudiate all such men and all such measures.

Frederick Douglass

#85. I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#86. The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.

Orison Swett Marden

#87. If a great man falls and remains great as he lies, people no more despise him than they stamp on a fallen temple, which the devout still worship as much as when it was standing.

Seneca.

#88. I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people.

Steve Huffman

#89. I think that when small-minded people envy and despise, then they will mock, thinking it their only weapon. I am not, I hope, a small-minded person. I will not mock you. I'll tell you straight to your face that I don't trust you and can't trust you...

Kate Elliott

#90. I despise judgmental people." "As do most creatures who deserve to be judged." "You got me. I'm a ho fo sho.

Kresley Cole

#91. But it is only people who have plenty of money who can despise it. To the rest of us it is important. It can at least put food in our stomachs clothes on our backs, and it can at least feed our dreams.

Mary Balogh

#92. 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

#93. Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#94. I'm convinced that some of our greatest and most influential teachers show up in our lives disguised as people we resent or even despise.

Wayne Dyer

#95. There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

Charlize Theron

#96. Let us spend our leisure with our books, which will take our minds off these troubles, and will teach us to despise what many people desire.

Poggio Bracciolini

#97. People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

Mike Tyson

#98. It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

Win Butler

#99. People naturally despise a dependant.

William Dean Howells

#100. If you despise your people,
you will disregard them.
If you hate your people,
you will harm them.
If you esteem your people,
you will serve them.
If you love your people,
you will even die for them.

Matshona Dhliwayo