Quotes About Maligned

#1. Emo: e-mo 1. A much-maligned, mocked, and misunderstood term for melodic, expressive, and confessional punk rock.

Andy Greenwald

#2. No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

John Brown Gordon

#3. Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Peter Schuyler

#4. There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.

Dora Russell

#5. No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

Don Feder

#6. Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

Stephen Fry

#7. Farce is a much-maligned form. It's easy to do badly, and therefore, audiences may have a negative feeling about it.

Mark Linn-Baker

#8. I think tripe is maligned. It's wonderful stuff, but everyone goes 'urgh.' You have to wash and then cook it, very gently braise it, for eight hours. It uplifts you but steadies you at the same time.

Fergus Henderson

#9. My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Erica Jong

#10. Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win.

Francis Maude

#11. For Star Trek proves, as faulty as individual episodes could be, is that the much-maligned common man and common woman has an enormous hunger for brotherhood. They are ready for the twenty-third century now, and they are light-years ahead of their petty governments and their visionless leaders.

Gene Roddenberry

#12. Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

Bill Bailey

#13. Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

Ann Coulter

#14. Most guys would be happy to have a woman so vocal about her desires," he said in a voice several degrees huskier than before. "Half the time, we have no clue if a woman is enjoying herself."
"Really?"
"Not me. Just trying to represent for my maligned gender.

Kate Meader

#15. What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back ... [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.

John F. Kerry

#16. The last eight years have created a lot of deep-seated hostility. People take political decisions very personally, and today there is a constant, ongoing attack, with one side or the other being maligned.

Fred F. Fielding

#17. We are the silent, the misunderstood and the maligned. We are Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

Khalid Muhammad

#18. To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be my fondest wish.

Pico Iyer

#19. Profits and prices are the street signs of the economy. Only fools flout them. The much-maligned price system works not only to secure supply but to conserve.

Ilana Mercer

#20. Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

Christiane Amanpour

#21. No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

Michele Bachmann

#22. If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.

Ben Shapiro

#23. I'm being unjustly maligned!

Richard D. Meyer

#24. I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.

Eleanor Catton

#25. First, my love and thanks to Ben Smith, my Hollywood agent, who has been a true visionary in a job that is often maligned (in this book, for instance)

Clive Barker

#26. You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a serialized novel, that others would bring to the making of a poem. My ambition was to raise the level of this much maligned genre.

Gaston Leroux

#27. God in His infinite wisdom blessed humans with redundant tongues: one to outfit the mouth for speech. And a mother tongue to give it meaning ... Though it wags out such inconceivable beauty, attached to the mother tongue lies one much maligned woman.

David B. Lentz

#28. Just then the kid upset the milk over Freddie's trousers, and when he had come back after changing his clothes he began to talk about what a much-maligned man King Herod was.

P.G. Wodehouse

#29. No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

Leland Ryken

#30. Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

Arthur Helps

#31. I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Kate Bernheimer

#32. The fashion industry at large has been the worst public relations vehicle for larger women and petite women, they are both maligned and neglected. And I honestly do believe it's getting better.

Tim Gunn

#33. The fact is, when people choose to be brave instead of smart, their courage is generally so threatening to those who are smart rather than brave that they end up being maligned, not congratulated. This is what the Bible says we can expect.

Gary Haugen

#34. Without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

Guy Deutscher

#35. In the past, mushrooms were maligned as nutritionally poor. Since they are about 80 to 90 percent water when fresh, their net concentrations of nutrients can be underestimated. Like grains, however, mushrooms should be weighed when dry to get their correct nutrient value.

Paul Stamets

#36. Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

Ingrid Newkirk

#37. Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#38. Jesus was always angered when the Father was maligned or when others were mistreated, but He was never selfishly angry at what was done against Him. That is the measure of righteous anger.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#39. I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form.

Alan Ruck