Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt. — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
We must endure the contempt of others without reciprocating that contempt. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There are more things in people that are rather worth of admiration than contempt.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt. — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Followers do not like themselves, of course; that's why they crawl. And masters have nothing but contempt for their subservants, which is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of contempt toward the law are forged in this crucible and form… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
To show pity is felt as a sign of contempt because one has clearly ceased to be an object of fear as… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger… — Yehuda Berg Copy Share Image
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
We are the raison d'être of the entire system. We are also the employers of those in public office and in the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full… — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of humor. One kind that makes us chuckle about our foibles and our shared humanity -- like what… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it;… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning;… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
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