We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government. — Mitch Daniels Copy Share Image
“No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware!” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Rainbow dust?" sneered Joe, drawing out each syllable until it snapped from the weight of his contempt.” — Jon Fasman 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
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in… — Joan Smith Copy Share Image
We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of… — Claudius Aelianus Copy Share Image
That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“She said: “It’s funny about ‘passing.’ We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the… — Holt McCallany Copy Share Image
If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in… — William Law Copy Share Image
“George meanwhile, with his hat on one side, his elbows squared, and his swaggering martial air, made for Bedford Row, and stalked… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Remembering that only a few years ago men, women, and even children, were imprisoned, tortured and burned, for having expressed in an… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
“In the first place, you aren't qualified or experienced enough to work at this level.In the second place, I don't want you… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody,… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image