When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
To give your vision & goal to reality, give it wings of action.Dont wait things to be happened,make it happened. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent… — Christopher Hitchens 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
Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
I never met Lou Reed, never was one of those journalists lucky enough to be the object of his derision, contempt, condescension,… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
He who feels contempt for any living thing hath faculties that he hath never used, and thought with him is in its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“What is the greatest thing you can experience? It is the hour of your greatest contempt. The hour in which even your… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for… — Armstrong Williams 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
Please. Don’t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don’t express… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply...… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
“avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
