#insults

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#insults #mean #most #say

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#discrimination #insults #jews #luther #martin

We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#compliments #insults #leave #prepared #us

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. ↗

— Epictetus

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I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#hand #i #insults #respond #well

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended. ↗

— Alice Walker

#insults #intended #long #long time #made

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#dismiss #insults #re-examine #soul #told

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn't really mind--or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a novel, a story, a poem that he loved, something visceral and volcanic occurred within him. He wasn't sure what this might mean--except perhaps that he had got life and art mixed up, back to front, upside down. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#insults #life #literature #novels #poems

It really is something ... that men disapprove even of our doing things that are patently good. Wouldn't it be possible for us just to banish these men from our lives, and escape their carping and jeering once and for all? Couldn't we live without them? Couldn't we earn our living and manage our affairs without help from them? Come on, let's wake up, and claim back our freedom, and the honour and dignity that they have usurped from us for so long. Do you think that if we really put our minds to it, we would be lacking the courage to defend ourselves, the strength to fend for ourselves, or the talents to earn our own living? Let's take our courage into our hands and do it, and then we can leave it up to them to mend their ways as much as they can: we shan't really care what the outcome is, just as long as we are no longer subjugated to them. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#courage #dignity #empowerment #equality #feminism

I’d heard you were dead.” "I heard you wear a red lace corset,” I said matter-of-factly. “But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#insults #put-downs #rumors #witty #humor