The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion. — Jonathan Swift 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
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger… — Yehuda Berg 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
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
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
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
“We would sneer sometimes at how pointless it all was, all those bourgeois souls wrapping themselves in luxury, isolating themselves from the… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets.… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it. — Mae West Copy Share Image
[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of… — Abraham Maslow 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
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the… — Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
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
Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over: but he saw nothing in it to look… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image