Her favourite song was 'God Has Blotted Them Out,' which was meant to be about sins, but really was about anyone who had ever annoyed her, which was everyone. She just didn't like anyone and she just...
The people naturally adhere most to doctrines which demand the least self-exertion and the least use of their own reason, and which can best accommodate their duties to their inclinations.
(n.) Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; -- opposed to philanthropy.
As soon as I entered the house, my wife took me in her arms, and kissed me; at which, having not been used to the touch of that odious animal for so many years, I fell into a swoon for almost an hour....
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
I wish I loved the human Race, I wish I loved its silly face, and when I'm introduced to one, I wish I thought "what jolly fun"!
I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.
Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
Do you hate people?I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
I dislike my fellow-mortals. Justice compels me to add that they appear for the most part to dislike me.
Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the r...