The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
Ben Okri

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
David Herbert Lawrence

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Will Rogers

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.
John M. Ford

The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
Garth Hudson

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
Chico Hamilton

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.
Aldous Huxley

There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
F. H. Bradley

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit.
Stephen Leacock

There is a visceral dislike of George Bush, and it's going to bring these guys together.
Terry McAuliffe

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.
Robert Goulet

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, heresy; and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.
Thomas Hobbes

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Samuel Richardson

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
e. e. cummings

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
Clarence Day

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
David Ansen

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
Eddie Marsan

What irritates me is the bland way people go around saying, 'Oh, our attitude has changed. We don't dislike these people any more.' But by the strangest coincidence, they haven't taken away the injustice; the laws are still on the books.
Christopher Isherwood