I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.Nelson Mandela
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. Peter Ackroyd
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. John Steinbeck
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. Virginia Woolf