A Quote by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

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Hateful Lovable Men Misanthrope Most Rather Shun Than

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Martin Farquhar Tupper
English - Writer
July 17, 1810 - 1889

To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement for a divinized world.

Richard Rorty

...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

Bill Hicks

So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.

Ivan Krylov

At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.

Wilfrid Laurier

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Bertrand Russell

A world so hateful some would rather die than be who they are.

Macklemore

Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.

Hannah Whitall Smith

The parts of people that are the most lovable is usually the thing they're least willing to share: the tender, vulnerable side of people that's endearing and magnetic and lovable - that's the part they hide.

Zach Woods

Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.

Cornelius Nepos

Most people see the problem of love primarily as that of being loved, rather than that of loving, of one's capacity to love. Hence the problem to them is how to be loved, how to be lovable.

Erich Fromm

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Po Bronson

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather than be an oppressor. Be gentle rather than zealous. Lay hold of goodness, rather than justice.

Isaac of Nineveh

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.

Gaspar Noe

A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence.