A Quote by Adam Smith

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Adam Smith

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Candour Hates Man Party True

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Adam Smith
Scottish - Economist
June 5, 1723 - July 17, 1790

The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

Sergey Nechayev

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Martin Luther

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

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The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A true man hates no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!

Hank Williams, Jr.

The man who hates war more than he hates the Nazis is a wicked man.

George Friedman

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friends, show me a man who hates himself, and I'll show you a man who hates his neighbours more! He'd have to – you wouldn't grant anyone else something you can't have for yourself – no love, no kindness, no respect!

Mary Ann Shaffer

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

William Taylor

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

D. H. Lawrence

Are Americans afraid to face the reality that there is a significant portion of this world's population that hates America, hates what freedom represents, hates the fact that we fight for freedom worldwide, hates our prosperity, hates our way of life? Have we been unwilling to face that very difficult reality?

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He will have true glory who despises it.

Livy

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.