Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts… — Abraham Maslow
Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt… — Gian-Carlo Rota
Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the… — Martin Luther
The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second… — Albert Einstein
Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent… — Lyndon B. Johnson
To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the… — Margaret Thatcher
He that searches for praise will often find contempt. — Norm MacDonald
I'm awash in self-contempt! — Woody Allen
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. — Monica Edwards
Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down… — David Rice
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. — Louis D. Brandeis
Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if… — Lynda Lee-Potter
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… — Baruch Spinoza
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create the First World… — David Icke

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