We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another. — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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 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
... hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice,… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people.… — Lynda Lee-Potter Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid… — Rick Falkvinge Copy Share Image
My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
From inability to let well alone; from too much zeal for the new and contempt for what is old; from putting knowledge… — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“Love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I… — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and reverent heart. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
