Contempt Quotes

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If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress. — Walter E. Williams
The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely… — Auberon Waugh
The world cries for men who are strong--strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer. I pray that you will be that kind… — Elisabeth Elliot
If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic… — Benito Mussolini
I feel what they feel: man-hating, that volatile admixture of pity, contempt, disgust, envy, alienation, fear, and rage at men. It is hatred not only… — Judith Levine
People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a… — Pope John Paul II
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on… — Steven Pressfield
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the… — Gore Vidal
I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt… — Germaine Greer
Indifference is the strongest contempt. — Ha Jin
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. — Isaac Barrow
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a… — Raoul Vaneigem
Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from… — Jean de la Bruyere
Hitler did not have Mussolinis revolutionary socialist background. . . . Nevertheless, he shared the socialist hatred and contempt for the bourgeoisie and capitalism and… — Richard Pipes
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the… — Michel Houellebecq
One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. — Dorothy Allison
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is… — Michael Ende
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or… — Thomas Piketty
Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to… — Alex Kozinski

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