Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a…

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such…

— Raoul Vaneigem

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

— Raoul Vaneigem

Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They…

— Lord Chesterfield

The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain. All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain.

— Hatebreed

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

— Cato the Elder

“Montaigne: “Religion’s surest foundation is the contempt for life.”

— Christopher Hitchens

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

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

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai