Contempt Quotes
515 quotes by 379 authors
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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the…
— James M. Barrie
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We should distinguish carefully skepticism about Big Government from contempt for all government.
— Mitch Daniels
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might…
— Barbara Kruger
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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger,…
— Dallas Willard
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers,…
— Steven Pinker
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Earth to Democrats: Displaying contempt for the American people when you are being paid by those people to serve their interests is generally not a…
— Monica Crowley
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Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of…
— Henry Rollins
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President Obama has contempt for real money.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never been required to…
— Martin Jacques
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My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition,…
— Rose George
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence…
— Noam Chomsky
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at…
— Noam Chomsky
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In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while…
— Alex Berenson
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Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
— Martin Freeman
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The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as…
— Donella Meadows
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Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
— Ira Gershwin
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself…
— Xenophon
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
— John Gay
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