Vilified Quotes

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.

Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?