“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit… — David Rice Copy Share Image
“How many we know who have fled the sweetness of a tranquil life in their homes, among the friends, to seek the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“Be convinced, that there are no persons so insignificant and inconsiderable, but may, some time or other, have it in their power… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Phew!” His small blue eyes shone with repugnance, a look of such unreasoning contempt for my skin that it filled me with… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“I have never met a truly strong person who didn't have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I frowned, gaping at the blond in disbelief. “You’re the grim reaper?” Tod glanced at me for the first time, his frown… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I think that what's actually happening is the collapse of the Center - the centrist semi-coalitions, mildly social-democrat, mildly conservative, that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force,… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion,… — Agnes Repplier 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
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught… — James Mackintosh Copy Share Image
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems;… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed… — Anna Brownell Jameson 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
That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Laziness can be a value on its own for those who want to show supremacy through contempt for work and wish to… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
To large numbers of American citizens life in certain parts of the country becomes intolerably hazardous. They may be seized on any… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
