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.
Theodor Herzl

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
William Penn

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.
Michel de Montaigne

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

Recipe writers hate to write about heat. They despise it. Because there aren't proper words for communicating what should be done with it.
Alton Brown

Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
Edward Young

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.
James Weldon Johnson

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

The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.
Quentin Crewe

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.
William Hazlitt

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.
Emily Carr

The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
George Mason

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.
Aleister Crowley

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu

They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
Boris Pasternak

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp

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