the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
More negatives write than call. It's a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail… — John Hall Copy Share Image
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed; it ever commands our respect: assumed dignity, or importance, excites our ridicule… — Joseph R. Bartlett Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's.… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Scientists themselves are of surprisingly little help. They find it difficult to talk of what they do because they tend to assume… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“We drove on in silence, Dad shaking his head in disgust every few minutes. I stared at him, wondering how it was… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
