Vilify Quotes

#1. People love villains almost as much as they love heroes. Nothing satisfies discontent so much as having a fiend to vilify, an embodiment of all that is wrong with the world.

Anonymous

#2. There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. We always vilify what we don't understand.

Nenia Campbell

#4. I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

Jack Nicholson

#5. To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Edgar Allan Poe

#6. You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.

Dabo Swinney

#7. Self respect by definition is a confidence and pride in knowing that your behaviour is both honorable and dignified. Therefore when you harass or vilify another person, you not only disrespect them, but you also. -Respect yourself by respecting others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#8. The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Orhan Pamuk

#9. Something clicked inside me at that moment. I stood outside of myself, realizing how easy it was to judge someone, to vilify and condemn the things we don't understand, because:

Leylah Attar

#10. The revving heart of my hopefulness, kicked into gear anew, is the most precious thing about me, I refuse to vilify it.

Jonathan Lethem

#11. Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

Pierre Beaumarchais

#12. Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Mike Huckabee

#13. Our ignorance of history makes us vilify our own age.

Gustave Flaubert

#14. You don't want to vilify your ego.

Jeff Bridges

#15. While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.

Denis Napthine

#16. When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.

Shia Labeouf

#17. The Bright Young People. The press love and hate them - they celebrate them, they vilify them, and they know full well that they would not shift nearly so many papers without them.

Lucy Foley

#18. Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'

Wangari Maathai

#19. When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.

Alexander Siddig

#20. We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out.

Michel De Montaigne

#21. So why don't they face us ... examine our evidence, debate, talk ... act like real historians instead of thought-police? Why shut us out of the media, pass laws against our speaking, persecute us, sue us, and vilify us?

Randolph D. Calverhall

#22. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them.

Walter Isaacson

#23. Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.

Samuel Johnson

#24. This is who he is. I don't like it any better than any of you do, but frankly he can't help that it's so easy for him to do these things. It's a talent--an unethical one, maybe. But it's who he is. It's why none of us will ever want for anything. You can't vilify him for that.

Meredith Wild

#25. I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

Mike Love

#26. There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.

Vera Farmiga

#27. I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.

Christian Gansch

#28. Rationality is a luxury. It can flourish only when protected and nourished...

Eva Blum

#29. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Marilyn Monroe

#30. Sometimes my skating allows me to do things I never dreamed possible.

Kurt Browning

#31. There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.

Louis O. Kelso

#32. Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points.

Diane Ackerman

#33. Even when there's no interest on either side one's coordination completely disappears in the presence of beauty (Abigail's daughter, Jen)

Abigail Thomas

#34. Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.

Ronald Reagan

#35. I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

Bill Toomey

#36. I've got a lot of fans, but I say friends, because every time I meet a fan somewhere around the world, I don't consider them a fan; I consider them as a friend.

Jason David Frank

#37. Many came to Jesus expecting him to solve their problems. Instead he helped them to connect to their own faith and their own wisdom.

Amos Smith

#38. For all the glamour of living forever ... immortality is really just a long curse. Finite life is precious; it's fleeting and significant. But immortality ... immortality isn't living at all. It's a permanent existence void of meaning.

Chelsea Fine

#39. I do write songs about love but I don't really know love that well.

Duffy

#40. Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

#41. We live in the Internet age. Everyone wants clicks. Clicks are what sells.

Trevor Noah