Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's agreed that he was always a great writer.
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness. . . But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.
I disliked numbers, and they didn't think much of me either.
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.
Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on its own without putting yourself to any extra trouble.
One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years.
I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.
I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none.
What is called generosity is really compassion. In the Shin'ei it is written "Seen from the eye of compassion, there is noone to be disliked. One who has sinned is to be pitied all the more. " There is no limit to the breadth and depth of ones heart. There is room enough for all. That we still worship the sages of the three ancient kingdoms is because their compassion reaches us yet today.
I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.
If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.
In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked, in the general run of the world. Examine yourself, why you like such and such people and dislike such and such others; and you will find that those different sentiments proceed from very slight causes.
I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.
. . . William wondered why he always disliked people who said 'no offense meant. ' Maybe it was because they found it easier to to say 'no offense meant' than actually to refrain from giving offense.
As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.
