He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
I love life and want to hold onto it. But my passion for justice for my tormented people, for their dignity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that… — Robin Wells Copy Share Image
Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
“So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts;… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity the heat of his own fire hath sadness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up… — Diane Johnson Copy Share Image
The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The way Grey speaks, one would think she had been garlanded in rubies and peonies rather than the semen of men who… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being… — King James I Copy Share Image
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting… — Pindar Copy Share Image
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy. — James David Barber Copy Share Image
Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“You're lying to yourself again. You wanted to get rid of them. Their contempt and disgust aren't pleasant company. You're glad they're… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is far better to bear the contempt and hatred of adversaries than to fall into reproach and into the snare of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison… — Nathaniel Parker Willis Copy Share Image
The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that… — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
I have nothing but contempt for you idiotic chosen ones who have the heart to rejoice when there are the damned in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image