Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer. — Betty Furness Copy Share Image
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them. — John M. Gottman Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The contempt which she had, very early in their acquaintance, felt for her daughter-in-law, was very much increased by the farther knowledge… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Contempt for one's own comrades, for the troops of the enemy, and, above all, fierce contempt for one's own person, are what… — William James Copy Share Image
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt, but without a little familiarity it's impossible to breed anything. — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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