Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
“We must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“And even if that weren’t true, Sikander had never understood how any decent human being could take pride in holding the sincere… — Richard Baker Copy Share Image
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Some hearts weren't meant to grow wings and fly to another to find nest. Some hearts are made to be kept within… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Though no one recognized his strength, Anand was among the strong. His satirical sense kept him aloof. At first this was only… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
... don't ever underestimate people, don't ever underestimate the pleasure they receive from viewing pain that is not their own... Pain by… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Every person of any rank in the left, from voter on up to cabinet member to elected official in the Democrat Party,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed…If I… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
“[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."… — Thomas Guthrie Copy Share Image
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Contempt, disdain, scorn: these emotions were stops along a closed loop that originated and terminated in a sense of superiority.” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
“imperceptible, element of contempt for those over whom the power is exercised. One can only dominate another human soul if one knows,… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned. — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
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