A Quote by James Baldwin

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

James Baldwin

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Being Contemptuous Despicable Head Makes Many Other Pain People Quite Really Spin Way Ways

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James Baldwin
American - Writer
August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987

I'm always amazed that people are shocked when their despicable action causes an equally despicable reaction.

CM Punk

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

Damian Lewis

Savage, despicable evil. That's what we were fighting in Iraq. That's why a lot of people, myself included, called the enemy 'savages.' There really was no other way to describe what we encountered there.

Chris Kyle

Lies hold civilization together. If people ever seriously begin telling each other what they really think, there'd be no peace. Good-bye to tact. Good-bye to being polite. Good-bye to showing tolerance for other people's buffooneries. The fact that we claim to admire Truth is probably the biggest lie of all. But that's part of the charade, part of what makes us human, and we do not even think about it. In effect, we lie to ourselves. Lies are only despicable when they betray a trust.

Jack McDevitt

I did like 'Despicable Me.' I thought it was quite good.

Edwin Catmull

We like to think of industrialization as being despicable. I don't really know what to make of it. There's something terribly brittle about it.

Roy Lichtenstein

You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor - and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.

Alexandra Petri

I'm not a human being. I'm despicable and disgusting - but that's where the money is.

Steve Martin

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

Len Wein

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Stellan Skarsgard

There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.

Greg Kinnear

The demonization of people who don't have a voice is particularly despicable, and the only thing we can do in our own little way is hold a mirror up to society and kind of say we're better than that.

Liam Cunningham

Too many days, that awful, despicable, rude, ruthless bully called cancer has knocked on the door of those I love.

Daryn Kagan

The bottom line is that the true test of one's commitment to freedom of association doesn't come when he allows people to associate in ways he approves. The true test of that commitment comes when he allows people to be free to voluntarily associate in ways he deems despicable. Forced association is not freedom of association.