“The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.” MindBelieveReadyConsciousInnocenceReportsDespiseScandal Author:Ovid
“It depends on how you define the word "racialist." If you mean being conscious of the differences between men and nations, and from that, races, then we are all racialists. However, if you mean a man who despises a human being because he belongs to another race, or a man who believes that one race is inherently superior to another, then the answer is emphatically "No."” IfsMenBelieveHumansMeanNationsDifferencesHuman BeingsAnswersRaceDependsConsciousSuperiorsDespise Author:Enoch Powell
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs? [Lat., Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?]” MenHumansHappinessLibertyConsciousAffairDespiseVirtuous Author:Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
“But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.” PeopleKnowsEndsEmotionHalfPowerDyingConsciousPropertyTerrorDespiseTwistedFreezeMoney Power Book:The Golden Notebook Source: The Golden Notebook
“What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?” MenHumansLibertyConsciousAffairDespiseVirtuous Author:William Shakespeare
“You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.” MayCharacterSpeakTeacherHumilityProudSpeechConsciousDignityAngryNeighborGuiltyMannersDespisePhysiciansHarshCarelessDisrespectful Author:John of Kronstadt