It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt. — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find… — Robert Bork Copy Share Image
Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The way Grey speaks, one would think she had been garlanded in rubies and peonies rather than the semen of men who… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy.… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Throughout the last century there were multiple attempts at giving Afghan women more autonomy, to change marriage laws, to abolish the practice… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
