The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants.
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.
