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Scorn Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
- The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever.
- Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
- Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
- The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.
- I have not the capability to give you my loyalty, nor do I have the vanity to appear as if I did.
- All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past,…
More Scorn Quotes
- A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn. — John Bercow
- 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. — Nolan Bushnell
- Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. — Albert Camus
- There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Albert Camus
- The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself… — Albert Camus
- Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth — William Shakespeare
- The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. — Garet Garrett
- See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious… — John Milton
- A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's… — Robert H. Jackson
- This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high. — Abraham Cowley