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  • We know well enough when we're being unjust and despicable. but we don't restrain ourselves because we experience a certain pleasure, a primitive sort of satisfaction in moments like that.

    Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler
  • Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

    Mean   Goal   Achieve  
    "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.
  • The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome.

  • How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

    Humanity   Might   Pity  
    Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.215
  • The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.

    Thinking   Past   Eight  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

    Marketing   Jam   Pearls  
  • I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

    "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.
  • When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics
  • I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

    "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.
  • There is nothing in the programming field more despicable than an undocumented program

    Edward Yourdon (1975). “Techniques of program structure and design”, Prentice Hall
  • Who ever told you there is no such thing in the world as real, true, everlasting love? May the liar have his despicable tongue cut out!

    Real   Liars   Cutting  
  • Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

    Country   Real   Rights  
  • A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

    Fear   Book   Writing  
    Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13
  • Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

    "Are Radical Imams Going to Redefine Freedom of Speech?" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.
  • You will only injure yourself if you take notice of despicable enemies.

    Hate   Enemy   Despise  
    Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (1909). “Folk-Lore and Fable”
  • Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

  • Because of President Obama's failed record on nearly every issue from the economy to the deficit to Medicare, the Obama campaign has become increasingly dirty, despicable, and desperate.

  • The eleventh commandment, "Thou shalt not be found out" is despicable, but nevertheless, it is the one thing you can never get away from.

  • All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

    Love   Money   Heart  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.27
  • Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

  • Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

  • There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

    Wise   Men   Idiot  
    William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.492
  • He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

    Love   Country   Peace  
    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • I would of course like to think I've never done a truly despicable thing, but then again you don't always know.

    Thinking   Done   Courses  
    "Coup De Main x NZ On Air | The Veils". Interview with Rose Riddell, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. September 13, 2016.
  • Saddam Hussein's regime is despicable, he is developing weapons of mass destruction, and we cannot leave him doing so unchecked. He is a threat to his own people and to the region and, if allowed to develop these weapons, a threat to us also.

    "Tony Blair's key quotes", www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2007.
  • I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

  • When you listen to the music in this film [Despicable Me], it's working on the level of melody, but the other key element is lyrics. There are a number of songs in the film where the lyrics themselves are very much speaking to the essence of what Ted Geisel was setting out to do.

    Song   Keys   Essence  
    Source: collider.com
  • There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

    Adventure   Men   Knights  
    Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.138
  • I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t’aimais, je t’aimais!

    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.378, Vintage
  • Prejudice usually can't survive close contact with the people who are supposed to be so despicable, which is why the propagandists for hate always preach separation.

    Hate   People   Prejudice  
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