39 Disfavor Quotes

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Famous Disfavor Quotes

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation. - Abdul-Qadir Gilani

Disrespect earns the displeasure of the creator and the creation. — Abdul-Qadir Gilani

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. — Confucius

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them. — Benjamin Franklin

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. — Immanuel Kant

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain

Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. — William Penn

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law. — Barack Obama

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. — Aesop

Short Disfavor Quotes

  • Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. — Tacitus
  • The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. — Ambrose Bierce
  • Spectators often express disfavor of fair decisions. — Helen Wills
  • There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. — Michael Chabon

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More Disfavor Quotes

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged. — Bryan Stevenson

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned. — Bryan Stevenson

A gold standard is the ideal monetary system for those who create wealth through ingenuity, entrepreneurship, and hard work. Gold standards are disfavored by those who do not create wealth but instead seek to extract wealth from others through inflation, inside information, and market manipulation. — James Rickards

I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go. — Elizabeth Olsen

Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged. — J Harlen Bretz

The only people benefiting in Iraq war are George Bush's Jr. friends in the oil industry. He has done the American economy and the global economy an enormous disfavor, but his Texan friends couldn't be happier. — Joseph Stiglitz

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.' — Billy Graham

People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes? — Neil Simon

....decay and disfavor came together as other parts of the coast were developed, and the canals became weed-clogged ditches breeding mosquitoes, and the hotels were turned into third-rate apartments. — Edward Bunker

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction. — Mark Twain

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor. — Friedrich Schiller

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. — Samuel Richardson

The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas. — Ralph Raico

I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession. — Tony Kushner

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust. — Michel de Montaigne

Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac

Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor. — Dallin H. Oaks

If there is an ‘overabundance’ of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action - which there well might be when compared with some ideal state of public debate - then action disfavoring that idea might ‘un-skew,’ rather than skew, public discourse. — Elena Kagan

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