Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

My job consists of basically masking my contempt for the assholes in charge, and, at least once a day, retiring to the men's room so… — Kevin Spacey
I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her… — Coretta Scott King
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. — Will Eisner
Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well… — William Kristol
We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something… — Jennifer Pahlka
Respecting your opponent is the key to winning any bout. Hold your enemy in contempt and you may miss the strategy behind his moves — David Hackworth
Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesnâ€™t matter if… — Michelle Malkin
Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person… — Michelle Malkin
Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts… — Andrea Dworkin
To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ. — Pope Leo X
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. — Roy Hattersley
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. — Edmund Burke
A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which… — Samuel Johnson
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear. — Henry Fielding
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court. — Finley Peter Dunne
God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death. — Hannibal
Karpov, Kasparov, Korchnoi have absolutely destroyed chess by their immoral, unethical, prearranged games. These guys are really the lowest dogs around, and if people knew… — Bobby Fischer
The Greeks had had vast experience in this world, their imagination had been fertile and they had created much...that, in these circumstances, they should fall… — Joseph Kastein
Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing… — Neville Figgis
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as… — William Hazlitt

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