Quotes of Disapprove - somelinesforyou

“ I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ”

- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire

“ Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ”

- Ashleigh Brilliant

“ Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The course of a river is almost always disapproved of by its source. ”

- Jean Cocteau

“ When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain. ”

- Francis Maude

“ The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ”

- George Orwell

“ Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. ”

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

“ The men who had hated and had not particularly loved Helvetius, flocked round him now. Voltaire forgave him all injuries, intentional or unintentional. 'What a fuss about an omelette!' he had exclaimed when he heard of the burning. How abominably unjust to persecute a man for such an airy trifle as that! 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,' was his attitude now. ”

- S. G. Tallentyre
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