--- title: "9 Hatred Contempt Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Hatred Contempt quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Hatred Contempt sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with_708509.jpg" --- > [I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with-ridicule-hatred-and-contempt/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with_708509.jpg) > [“The way to keep down hatred and contempt is certainly not to look for a man's alleged "dignity," but, on the contrary,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-schopenhauer/the-way-to-keep-down-hatred-and-contempt-is-certainly-not-to-look-for/) [Arthur Schopenhauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-schopenhauer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e61/arthur-schopenhauer-226_contempt_the-way-to-keep-down-hatred-and-contempt_3194789.jpg) > [The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-more-cruel-the-wrong-that-men-commit-against-an-individual-or-a/) [Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f8/albert-einstein-33_commit_the-more-cruel-the-wrong-that-men-commit_413819.jpg) > [ “\[Theseus\] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plutarch/theseus-soon-found-himself-involved-in-factions-and-troubles-those/) [Plutarch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plutarch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/127/plutarch-597_authority_theseus-soon-found-himself-involved-in-f_1143066.jpg) > [One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/toni-morrison/one-of-my-kids-was-born-in-1968-there-were-going-to-be-political/) [Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/toni-morrison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/766/toni-morrison-271_born_one-of-my-kids-was-born-in-1968-there-we_2257826.jpg) > [Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-percy-whipple/wit-implies-hatred-or-contempt-of-folly-and-crime-produces-its/) [Edwin Percy Whipple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-percy-whipple/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dcd/edwin-percy-whipple-8845_branding_wit-implies-hatred-or-contempt-of-folly_1216536.jpg) > [“The form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of out lives.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/the-form-that-the-love-of-religion-takes-in-the-soul-differs-a-great/) [Simone Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simone-weil/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/simone-weil-544_beauty-of-the-world_the-form-that-the-love-of-religion-takes_1141814.jpg) > [The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-camus/the-aim-of-art-the-aim-of-a-life-can-only-be-to-increase-the-sum-of/) [Albert Camus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-camus/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a0/albert-camus-47_aim_the-aim-of-art-the-aim-of-a-life-can-onl_1301347.jpg) > [ “Different groups in the \[Middle East\] drew two lessons from \[return of the shah in Iran\] - one, that Americans were willing… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernard-lewis/different-groups-in-the-middle-east-drew-two-lessons-from-return-of/) [Bernard Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernard-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89b/bernard-lewis-11653_middle-east_different-groups-in-the-middle-east-drew_37501.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hatred-contempt/#itemlist", "name": "Hatred Contempt Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with-ridicule-hatred-and-contempt/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dbc/christopher-hitchens-117_claims_i-think-religion-should-be-treated-with_708509.jpg", "contentUrl": 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Some circumstances prevent the very birth of this love; others kill it before it has been able to grow very strong. In affliction some men, in spite of themselves, develop a hatred and contempt for religions because the cruelty, pride, or corruption of certain of its ministers have made them suffer. There are others who have been reared from their earliest youth in surroundings impregnated with a spirit of this sort. We must conclude that in such cases, by God's mercy, the love of our neighbor and the love of the beauty of the world, if they are sufficiently strong and pure, will be enough to raise the soul to any height.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Simone Weil" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simone-weil/the-form-that-the-love-of-religion-takes-in-the-soul-differs-a-great/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/simone-weil-544_beauty-of-the-world_the-form-that-the-love-of-religion-takes_1141814.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/simone-weil-544_beauty-of-the-world_the-form-that-the-love-of-religion-takes_1141814.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/simone-weil-544_beauty-of-the-world_the-form-that-the-love-of-religion-takes_1141814.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The form that the love of religion takes in the soul differs a great deal according to the circumstances of…” — Simone Weil", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. 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The one evoked hatred, the other contempt - a dangerous combination. Clearly, something deeper is involved than these specific grievances, numerous and important as they may be, something deeper which turns every disagreement into a problem and makes every problem insoluble. What we confront now is not just a complaint about one or another American policy but rather a rejection and condemnation, at once angry and contemptuous, of all that America is seen to represent in the modern world. 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