Despise Quotes - Page 3

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Authority is never without hate.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

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

People generally despise where they flatter.

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

I despise my own hypersensitiveness, which requires so much reassurance. It is certainly abnormal to crave so much to be loved and understood.

The unconquerable pang of despised love.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

However exalted our position, we should still not despise the powers of the humble.

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

Only the elites despise earning money.

Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.