“Neuspeh u našoj sredini učini čoveka budalom. Osramoti ga. Ponizi, isprlja. Ideji se niko ne suprostavlja idejom, nego nipodaštavanjem i psovkom. Znanje… — Dobrica Ćosić Copy Share Image
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down… — Plutarch 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
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If in our day there are so many men that pass before the Cross wagging their head, who gaze at our altars… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Contempt is the only asymmetrical facial expression, so it's easy to spot once you're aware of its signs. One researcher has successfully… — Pamela Meyer Copy Share Image
Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride,… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a… — Coretta Scott King 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
The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Can I help you?" he said, in a manner which indicated very clearly that not only did he not wish to help… — Graham Austin-King Copy Share Image
If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a… — Bran Ferren Copy Share Image
The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“We must let love simmer, without being consumed by contempt, otherwise atrocity will never end, only switch sides.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope… — Will Durst Copy Share Image
“And even if that weren’t true, Sikander had never understood how any decent human being could take pride in holding the sincere… — Richard Baker Copy Share Image
“Some hearts weren't meant to grow wings and fly to another to find nest. Some hearts are made to be kept within… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The only reward to be expected from the cultivation of literature is contempt if one fails and and hatred if one succeeds.” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure. — Toby Young Copy Share Image
