Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself,… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The art is about opening, it is not about prejudice, it is not about contempt prior to investigation. It's about endlessly trying… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
“Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt.… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair.… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When we see people as losers, we treat them with contempt. When we see them as lost, we treat them with compassion. — Bob Horner Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image