If American industry continues to sow contempt for the consumer, it will reap contempt from the consumer. — Betty Furness Copy Share Image
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead. — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease. — William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling Copy Share Image
Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“What our contempt often hurls from us, We wish it our again; the present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Wanawake wenye umri wa miaka kumi na nane hadi ishirini na mbili wanaweza kutawaliwa. Ishirini na mbili hadi ishirini na nne wanaweza… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never… — Heather King 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
And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“So much contempt for your own species." "Yes, contempt! If you had seen what I have seen, watched what a human may… — Chris Wraight Copy Share Image
We awake every day chose to live life, but it's disregarded as what we choose to do. — Denise Clark 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
We must see to it that enthusiasm for the future does not give rise to contempt for the past. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image