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The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Aldous Huxley |

I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Virginia Woolf |

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Gustave Flaubert |