Zitat des Tages über Verachten / Despise:
Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Being a monarchist, and fawning over those 'above' you, you must naturally despise those 'below' or on the same socioeconomic level as yourself, because that is how hierarchy worship works.
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.
When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.
I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
Nothing prevents us from being and remaining the exponents of a united humanity, when we have a country of our own. To fulfill this mission we do not have to remain literally planted among the nations who hate and despise us.
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
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.
I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible.
I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.
For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
I despise research. I think it's a crutch.
I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.
