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I did n’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group. – Steve Scalise	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It is time for the international community to take a clear stand against those who build the foundations of terror by teaching children to detest and despise, this must start by speaking out against incitement in Palestinian society. – Ron Prosor	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous. – Perry Brass	added by JP03 9 years ago
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. – Noam Chomsky	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. – J. K. Rowling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel. – Thomas Paine	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure men love in haste but they detest at leisure. – George Gordon Byron	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another. – Homer	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. – Edgar Watson Howe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. – Stephen Leacock	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I did n’t know who all of these groups were and I detest any kind of hate group.

– Steve Scalise

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It is time for the international community to take a clear stand against those who build the foundations of terror by teaching children to detest and despise, this must start by speaking out against incitement in Palestinian society.

– Ron Prosor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

– Perry Brass

added by JP03
9 years ago

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

– Stephen Leacock

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

– Noam Chomsky

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

– J. K. Rowling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

– Thomas Paine

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

– Stephen Leacock

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

– Lord Byron

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

– H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

– H.L. Mencken