In affability there is no hatred of men, but for that very reason there is all too much contempt for men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates… — John Reed Copy Share Image
To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them. — Claude Chabrol Copy Share Image
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
“Oh, that's just Thud! That's easy!" yapped a voice. Both men turned to look at Horsefry, who had been made perky by… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling,… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers… — Neville Figgis Copy Share Image
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When birth control pills were available in Europe but not in the United States, American women created an uproar about how the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer. — Betty Furness Copy Share Image
We awake every day chose to live life, but it's disregarded as what we choose to do. — Denise Clark Copy Share Image
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
