The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an… — Kenyon Cox Copy Share Image
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
All over Europe the organs that represent dogmatic interests are in permanent opposition to the progressive tendencies around them, and are rapidly… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride,… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being,… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Only you must have worthy foes hate, but not enemies worthy of contempt. You must be proud of your enemy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was what the gleeman had called Plain Chant, those nights beside the fire on the ride north. Stories, he said, were… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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