Manuel Riveros

“Misanthropy develops when without art one puts complete trust in somebody thinking the man absolutely true and sound and reliable and then a little later discovers him to be bad and unreliable ... and when it happens to someone often ... he ends up ... hating everyone”
― Plato, Phaedo

“Yes, I do read books but only for one purpose: to learn how to hate man and to hold him in contempt.”
― Leonid Andreyev, Judas Iskarijotas. Šėtono dienoraštis

“Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Whenever he met him or saw him sitting somewhere - he felt only the sentiment that is generally termed tolerance: a very lukewarm emotional stew of disgust, contempt, and sympathy.”
― Patrick Süskind, The Pigeon