Vilified Quotes

#1. You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

John Milius

#2. I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

Frederick Lenz

#3. They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

Richard J. Daley

#4. Few developments in campaigning have been as vilified and misunderstood as independent expenditure PACs, or, as they are colloquially known, super PACs.

Bradley A. Smith

#5. We must be conventional, Jack, or we are so cruelly, so vilely misunderstood. Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified

George Bernard Shaw

#6. There is a means to every end. A root to any cause. Sometimes the root is more evil than any cause, though it's the cause that is usually most vilified.

Michael Connelly

#7. It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

Anson Mount

#8. You can make history, or you will be vilified by it.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#9. I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don't care.

Stephen Bayley

#10. I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.

Dominic Monaghan

#11. As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#12. Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands.

Marcus Aurelius

#13. New things, new ideas arrived and strutted their stuff and were vilified by some and then lo! that which had been a monster was suddenly totally important to the world.

Terry Pratchett

#14. But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

Minnie Driver

#15. Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.

Elif Safak

#16. Being fat means being left out, scorned, and vilified.

Mary Pipher

#17. It is an unfortunate reality for innate idlers that our modern world requires one to hold a job to maintain a sustainable existence. Idling, I find, if immensely underrated, even vilified by some who see inactivity as the gateway for the Evil One.

J. Maarten Troost

#18. I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

Dustin Lance Black

#19. And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

#20. On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

Lawrence Reed

#21. Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?

Marilyn Manson

#22. The better an entrepreneur succeeds, the more is he vilified and themore is he soaked by taxation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#23. Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

John Bunyan

#24. I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!

Spike Lee

#25. We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society.

Audre Lorde

#26. It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.

Malcolm Gladwell

#27. But it was Eve who was vilified, never the serpent. Just as it was the lady who was ruined, never the man.

Sarah MacLean

#28. Public service used to be the highest of callings, until people like Madame Voldemort vilified it.

Jennifer Granholm

#29. I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.

Kanye West

#30. One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution ... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

Felix Frankfurter

#31. You were witnessing me become this crazy and cerebral girl, the kind of girl that you and your entire generation vilified. But doesn't witnessing contain complicity? "You think too much," is what they always said when their curiosity ran out.

Chris Kraus

#32. It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.

Richard Dawkins

#33. A high EQ mind maintains its composure whatever the situation, whether it is being glorified or vilified.

Pearl Zhu

#34. What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Robert Duvall

#35. It's the story of how I went from being lionized for helping bring the snipers to justice to being vilified for writing a book about it.

Charles A. Moose

#36. Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

Ambrose Bierce

#37. Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

Eliza Farnham