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
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life. — Cato the Elder Copy Share Image
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For they imagined as they wished--that it was a wild shot,/ an unintended killing--fools, not to comprehend/ they were already in the… — Homer Copy Share Image
The covenant between Jews and God was conditional on their respect for human rights. The reason they were expelled from the land… — Stephen Sizer Copy Share Image
Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay… — Jennifer Pahlka 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
all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What outsiders discover in their adventures on the other side of the looking glass is the courage to repudiate self-contempt and recognise… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers… — Neville Figgis 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
“Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned. Eventually, he was down to uttering… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image