“Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.” — Gordon H. Clark Copy Share Image
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley 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
“Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make… — L. E. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I hate going to L.A. and dealing with the contempt people have for television and television actors. Its unbelievable the kind of… — Michael Moriarty Copy Share Image
Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“He didn’t even look at Lizzie, just stared at Emily, his cold blue eyes filled with such contempt she feared she might… — Bev Pettersen Copy Share Image
Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the… — Daniel Finkelstein Copy Share Image
“Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
“In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In her book claiming that allegations of ritualistic abuse are mostly confabulations, La Fontaine’s (1998) comparison of social workers to ‘nazis’ shows… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“- Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of… — Heber Doust Curtis Copy Share Image
“My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
