The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.
I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.
If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.
Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.
I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.
Now, you may think that this is some sort of generalized hatred that I will carry for the lot of you. Let me assure you that this is not the case. Each of you will fail, but you will fail in your own unique way, and therefore I will dislike each of you on an individual basis.
Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.
You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently.
I feel a bit awkward playing in a red shirt out at Wimbledon. But I don't dislike it.
Above all, I dislike vulgarity.
Why cannot we be delighted with an author, and even feel a predilection for him, without a dislike of others? An admiration of Catullus or Virgil, of Tibullus or Ovid, is never to be heightened by a discharge of bile on Horace.
We must fight all that we dislike in public life. We must substitute better ideas for wrong ideas.
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
We make up any excuse to preserve myths about people we love, but the reverse is also true; if we dislike an individual we adamantly resist changing our opinion, even when somebody offers proof of his decency, because it's vital to have myths about both the gods and devils in our lives.
There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.
I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like.