Quotes with deride

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• I have taken great care not to deride, bewail, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

  Source: Tractatus Politicus Ch. 1

  ― Baruch Spinoza
  Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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• The purpose of studying history is not to deride human action, nor to weep over it or to hate it, but to understand it. And hopefully then to learn from it as we contemplate our future.

  Source: Renewal and Renaissance - Towards A New World Order (1997)

  ― Nelson Mandela
  South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  ― Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• incontrovertible
• hopefully
• ignorance
• history
• action
• future

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