Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who have the least anxiety about the triumph of the principles I have stood for. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Jesus once caused a sick man to arise on the Sabbath and take up his bed, whereupon the pious of the land… — Alfred Rosenberg Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“It was what the gleeman had called Plain Chant, those nights beside the fire on the ride north. Stories, he said, were… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
I am pained that I have been held guilty of committing contempt of the Court whose majesty I have tried to uphold… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
I think there is a contempt for the human dignity of people who were enslaved. You couldn't see them as fully human… — Bryan Stevenson 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… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
When Chuck House wanted to develop the oscilloscope for HP, David Packard told him to abandon the project. Chuck went on "vacation"… — Bob Sutton Copy Share Image
Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It has always been accepted, even in pronouncements by the Supreme Court that the Court and its judgements can be subjected to… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have… — Floyd Patterson Copy Share Image
“I once sat down on a bench at Cape Town railway station where the notice "Whites Only" was obscured. A few moments… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory.… — John Piper Copy Share Image
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to… — Mark the Evangelist Copy Share Image
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The arts, the arts, the arts - I don't know why it took me so long to realize how important they are.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“What! your wisdom thinks I must love the man I'm going to marry? The most unpleasant thing in the world. I should… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
![“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d1/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_i-affect-no-contempt-for-the-high-eminen_2296058.png)
