Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain. All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain. — Hatebreed Copy Share Image
Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. It's unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Contempt for science could perhaps depend on the fact that, science hasn't been able to solve any of our basic problems, for… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her,… — Alison Roberta Noble Neilans Copy Share Image
Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“None were good enough for her, so I held them in contempt and hated them. They in turn hated and feared me.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
This subject brings me to that vilest offspring of the herd mind -- the odious militia. The man who enjoys marching in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Has it ever occurred to you that Max feels the same basic contempt for you as you do for him?” “He feels… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances,… — Joseph Kastein Copy Share Image
Hitler did not have Mussolini's revolutionary socialist background... Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the 'bourgeoisie' and 'capitalism' and… — Richard Pipes Copy Share Image
Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image