Contempt Quotes

515 quotes by 384 authors

All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life". — Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt — Gautama Buddha
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. — Austin O'Malley
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children… — Socrates
Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world… — Plutarch
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back… — Steven Pressfield
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. — Lester Bangs
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be… — Czeslaw Milosz
I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best… — Sophocles
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. — Paul Lazarsfeld
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much… — Stephen King
The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth. — Seneca the Younger
The threat of China is not military. The threat of China is they can't be intimidated. Europe you can intimidate. When the US tries to… — Noam Chomsky
Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people… — Frantz Fanon
We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing… — Ferdinand Marcos
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a manâ€™s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain… — Henry Mackenzie
Please. Donâ€™t switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt donâ€™t express it, at least… — Sarah Kane
When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research… — Pope Benedict XVI
Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing… — Alan Keyes

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