Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives… — Carl Bernstein
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. — Jello Biafra
Familiarity breeds contempt. — Aesop
I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws,… — Michael Bloomberg
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to… — Louis D. Brandeis
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,… — Thomas Carlyle
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. — Lord Chesterfield
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all… — Lord Chesterfield
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. — Minna Antrim
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition… — Alexander Hamilton
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot… — Mark the Evangelist
Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind… — C.S. Lewis
Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can… — Alexander Hamilton
I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt… — Arthur Conan Doyle

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