Contempt Quotes · Page 8

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

— Cato the Elder

Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Rainbow dust?" sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.”

— Jon Fasman

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

— Albert Einstein

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

— Horace

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and…

— John Steinbeck

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

— C. S. Lewis

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

— Thomas Paine

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Loneliness, dejection, the contempt or pity of people around you--these are unpleasant feelings. But they are precisely the things that produce genuine…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

“Should we not think ourselves worthy of contempt to dote upon a perishing glory, to expect support from an arm of flesh,…

— William Symington

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children…

— Tom Lantos

I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create…

— David Icke

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents,…

— Socrates

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It…

— Noam Chomsky

I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty…

— Colin Wilson

I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have…

— Noam Chomsky

If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force,…

— Jefferson Davis

“I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. “You’re the grim reaper?” Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown…

— Rachel Vincent

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but…

— William Osler

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own…

— Margaret Mead

That's why every society on the planet has very definite rules, ideas about how sex should be regulated, how sex should be…

— Mary Gaitskill

It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists -- food aid for North…

— Don Feder

“What I feel for you is contempt. But it's nothing, compared to the contempt I feel for myself. I don't love you.…

— Ayn Rand

“So much contempt for your own species." "Yes, contempt! If you had seen what I have seen, watched what a human may…

— Chris Wraight

Until that moment, I hadn't realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with…

— Sarah Vowell

“No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!”

— Dada Bhagwan

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

— Marshall McLuhan

I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

— Lionel Shriver

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.

— Mitch Daniels

The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

— Paul Lazarsfeld