To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A schmuck is a general term of disrespect. It's a term of contempt and derision. It applies to a lot of people. — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Your cowardly self-delusions about “love” when you know as well as I do that there’s never been anything between us but contempt… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned. — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“Do not instigate or treat any of your employees, working at your place, with contempt. Treat everyone with respect. You never know… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
“There’s nothing quite as scorching as a teenager’s contempt. It has a breathless sting, and it lingers for a very long time.” — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and,… — Iggy Pop Copy Share Image
“As a society, our decision to heap shame and contempt upon those who struggle and fail in a system designed to keep… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order. — William Morris Copy Share Image
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system… — Michael Shanks Copy Share Image
“Our polarization, and the increasing reality that we simply don't know each other, makes it too easy to settle for dislike and… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt.… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image