Quotes on Dislike

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

You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

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

The great way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When like and dislike are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are set infinitely apart.

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

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

I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

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.

Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt