Distaste Quotes
-
The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.
Plato -
I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult.
Albert Einstein
-
As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.
Mahatma Gandhi -
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Arthur Helps -
If primness is a small recoil of distaste at things that give others simple and hearty pleasure, then prim is what I'm really becoming.
Eva Hoffman