misanthropy quotes

Racism? But isn't it onlya form of misanthropy?

- Ioseph Brodsky
  Less Than One,'Flight From Byzantium'.

From the poetry of Lord Byron they drewa system of ethics, compounded of misanthropyand voluptuousness, a system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour, and to love your neighbour's wife.

-1st Baron
  Of the young Byron enthusiasts who emulated and hero- worshipped him.'Moore's Life of Lord Byron', in the Edinburgh Review,  Jun.