I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt. — Lionel Shriver 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
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
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I beheld you, suddenly - for perhaps a second - I had the strength to reject everything that wasn't you and… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When thou seest thine enemy in trouble, curl not thy whiskers in contempt; for in every bone there is marrow, and within… — Saadi Copy Share Image
there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed;… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds… — Dan Abnett Copy Share Image
Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Out of love and hatred, out of earnings and borrowings and leadings and losses; out of sickness and pain; out of wooing… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
