When a warrior fights not for himself, but for his brothers, when his most passionately sought goal is neither glory nor his… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt… — Nance O'Neil Copy Share Image
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To those human beings who are of any concern to me, I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill treatment, indignities, profound self-contempt, the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We cannot fulfill that purpose [environmentalism] if we are heaping contempt on God's creation. — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not… — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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