He will find few people who won't support him in this: however much you distrust him and despair of his Singapore-in-the-channel vision for Britain, you must despise more anyone who would malnourish a puppy for cash.
But beyond that I've shied away, put off by the enmity of Edward Said and George Orwell's famous demolition of Kipling's "good bad poetry" (and the suggestion that every enlightened person must "despise him").
He's against complacent, feel-good Christianity, and, judging from his movie, he must despise the grandiose old Hollywood kitsch of "The Robe," "The King of Kings," "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and "Ben-Hur," with their Hallmark twinkling skies, their big stars treading across sacred California sands, and their lamblike Jesus, whose simple presence overwhelms Charlton Heston.
He is anxious that doctors shouldn't be asked to double as businesspeople, obliged to practise medicine with one eye on the balance sheet: "For it is impossible at the same time to engage in business, and to practise so great an Art: you must despise one of them, if you are to press on with all speed towards the other".
Written in the same Greek as the Gospels, and around the same time, there are parallels in its philosophy: "For it is impossible at the same time [for a physician] to engage in business, and to practise so great an Art; you must despise one of them if you are to press on with all speed towards the other".
He's against complacent, feel-good Christianity, and, judging from his movie, he must despise the grandiose old Hollywood kitsch of "The Robe," "The King of Kings," "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and "Ben-Hur," with their Hallmark twinkling skies, their big stars treading across sacred California sands, and their lamblike Jesus, whose simple presence overwhelms Charlton Heston.
The lessons I learned through David were that you had to leave home, go out into the world, and become your own man; and you must not despise any unlikely role models you might meet.
People must really despise me.
How much must you despise them to do such a thing?
This creates a permanent game of catch-up, whose victims are the "losers", that is to say ordinary people who do not aspire to such status or riches but must be despised nonetheless by the chief executives, vice-presidents and other wolves of Wall Street.
To be anything other than a "bad mom," must one despise work?
