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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.


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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. [Lat., Quem metuont oderunt, quem qui...
QUINTUS ENNIUS We can only hate the person whom we love.
KAZI SHAMS All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the indiv...
ANNA C. BRACKETT Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equali...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY They hate whom they fear.
QUINTUS ENNIUS They hate whom they fear
QUINTUS ENNIUS I call him Cool Hand Luke. That's his name, because nothing gets to him, on the field or off the fie...
DERRICK BURGESS Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abs...
JAMES G. FRAZER The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to complimen...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE) The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have i...
WILLIAM JAMES No man is or can be purely individual. The mass of men have only the tiniest touch of individuality:...
D.H. LAWRENCE Whom they have injured, they also hate.
SENECA We will join for the sake of our future, because we know the experience of other countries that did ...
NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV We believe with all the strength of our spirit that mankind has a supreme, primary and irreplaceable...
POPE PAUL VI We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.
VIKRANT PARSAI Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?
JODI PICOULT A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my n...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.
DōGEN I don't know what can be gained from it.
KIM JONG IL The words I'm singing now Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
ELBERT HUBBARD At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act c...
GEORGE ORWELL Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined...
CHARLES DE GAULLE I didn't like it because Jell-O is soft to me. But I think they can call him 'Jell-O' now. I call hi...
BOBBY MARTIN Mistrust all men, and slay him whom thou mistrustest overmuch; and as for women, flee from them, for...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Society cannot be insane, only the individual can. Because sanity is a label dictated by society's r...
LUIS ALBERTO ICAZA War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate
MARVIN GAYE War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.
MARVIN GAYE If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate
ELBERT HUBBARD Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and s...
C.S. LEWIS You must not kill your neighbor, whom perhaps you genuinely hate, but by a little propaganda this ha...
BERTRAND RUSSELL There would be fewer absent fathers, if straight men were turned on only by women with whom they wou...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; ...
MARTIN GARDNER . . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an indivi...
BEATRICE HINKLE To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.
JOHN RUSKIN Whom they have injured they also hate. [Lat., Quos laeserunt et oderunt.]
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) But our security forces have prevented the incidents from becoming bigger by behaving sensibly. Noth...
ISMAIL CALISKAN Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fello...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fello...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing to be gained by isolating Russia from global mechanisms. What Russia needs is const...
ANDREW SOMERS There was nothing to be gained by losing his temper. There was never anything to be gained by that.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me o...
FATHER JOHN NICHOLAS GROU, S.J. Nothing risque, nothing gained.
ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Nothing ventured, nothing gained
AMERICAN PROVERB Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
SøREN KIERKEGAARD A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
BIBLE Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
IAN FLEMING One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
OSCAR WILDE When you love a person you are gathering momentum to hate him. That’s why only friends can become ...
OSHO Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY Strength may be found in greater numbers, but true courage, which is from the heart, can only be fou...
MOHAMMED J A SHAH Support can come from many, but growth is only achieved by the individual.
TYCONIS D. ALLISON TY Seen from Earth, a comet is a prodigy, coming out of the void for no reason, returning to the void f...
SCOTT ALEXANDER In America, at the beginning of talkies, they pulled Fred Astaire from the theaters and put him on t...
TONY BENNETT Often they think of him as somebody who was greedy, avaricious, who was more interested in making mo...
BART EHRMAN ...it is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we indivi...
F.A. HAYEK No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
KATE BROWN She was told nothing can be done because she still had contact with him.
MARC LANOIS You can't hate those whom you love and you can't love those whom you hate.
KOWSALAPATHY Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn...
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they kn...
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BLAISE PASCAL They used to call Arkansas 'the land of opportunity,' and black people said, 'Opportunity for whom?'...
ERNEST GREEN They used to call Arkansas 'the land of opportunity,' and black people said, 'Opportunity for whom? ...
ERNEST GREEN Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up...
PETER WASTHOLM I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God really existed, it would be necessary to aboli...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the...
YAIR LAPID I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...
GLORIA STEINEM I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because t...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL SMILES Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are...
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are ...
HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
BLAISE PASCAL Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in j...
CATHARINE MACKINNON And certainly We know that they say: Only a mortal teaches him. The tongue of him whom they reproach...
QURAN His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of th...
JULIET MARILLIER Did men ever look in the mirror, I wondered, and find themselves wanting in deeply fundamental ways?...
GAIL HONEYMAN The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE The essential part of our being can only survive if the transient part dissolves. Death is a conditi...
PIR VILAYAT KHAN The can also think of someone that person would call if they could only make one phone call, then ch...
NANCY BROWN I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing whe...
SAMUEL JOHNSON These fabricated and outrageous charges come from an individual whom MSG fired because of an inabili...
RON GREEN Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU I didn't realize I would be maybe researching quotes from Voltaire and Mussolini before this was ove...
MIKE LYNCH The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young m...
ERICH AUERBACH These men are worthy heirs to the tradition of Washington and Lee and Marshall, men who know their b...
MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
ROBBIE COLTRANE The only thing I can think of is that they had nothing to lose and he wanted to keep him out there.
BILLY WAGNER It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
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