In the United States we have a society pervaded from top…

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

— Margaret Mead

Crime is contagious…if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

— Louis D. Brandeis

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.

— David Ricardo

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that…

— Desmond Tutu

If there is a pattern, it will come back - maybe in Russia more than anywhere else, because it has collapsed so many times.…

— Tatyana Tolstaya

The United States is a society in which people not only can get by without knowing much about the wider world but are systematically…

— Robert Jensen

In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt…

— Baron d'Holbach

Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled…

— Mark the Evangelist

Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes…

— Harold Ramis

Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just…

— Thucydides

There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we…

— Francois Fenelon

Show your contempt for the problem and your concern for the person.

— Jim Rohn

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

— Paul Wolfowitz

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai