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Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Love the offender, yet detest the offense.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

I detest the masculine point of view. I am bored by his heroism, virtue, and honour. I think the best these men can do is not talk about themselves anymore.

I do not condemn any personal choices for intimate relationships. Love is love. I detest only the violence and trauma that any self-centered conduct can cause to others.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun; The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to; Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

I loathe and detest movies and television and don't watch any. I do not have the time.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

Complainers detest each other.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

I detest acting because it is sheer drudgery.

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

I detest 'love lyrics.' I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that people have been raised on 'love lyrics.

In the tranquillity of a garden, we detest the war and love the peace much more than any other places!

We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.