A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
William Jay

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.
Lew Wallace

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.
Marilyn vos Savant

But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
Adam Duritz

Christ: I dislike him very much. Still, I can stand him. What I cannot stand is the wretched band of people whose profession is to hoodwink us about him.
Samuel Butler

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
John Masefield

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
Ravi Shankar

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
Tanith Lee

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
Maria Monk

Hate is more lasting than dislike.
Adolf Hitler

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
George Orwell

However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.
Tony Blair

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
Herbert Croly

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
Jean Cocteau

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
Edward Dmytryk