Dick Cavett Quotes

I'm offended every time I see George Bush on TV!

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

I couldn't despise a man more than George W. Bush.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?

I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.

Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

The people never endeavor to ridicule those they love and esteem, nor will they suffer them to be ridiculed. If any one attempts it, their ridicule returns upon the author; he makes himself only the object of public hatred and contempt.

No more Nixon jokes. He’s a sick man.

Liberals stand for tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love of learning, freedom of belief, art and poetry, city life, the very things that make life worth dying for. Conservatives stand for tax cuts … and use of the tax refund to buy a gun and an attack dog to take with you when you drive your all-terrain vehicle through the barriers of Republicanville.

A lot of people didn't like John McCain.

It kills me to hear Donald Trump talking.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

I don't hate Trump, but he's not somebody I admire.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

I don't want to make people feel better.

I thought everybody unanimously hated this man. I don't know anyone who was like, 'Go Trump.' I was surprised.

Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim, and hearts gotta bleed.