"To harm the earth is to heap contempt…" — Chief Seattle

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• The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the… — Carl Bernstein
• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics. — Jello Biafra
• Familiarity breeds contempt. — Aesop
• I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.… — Michael Bloomberg
• It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law;… — Louis D. Brandeis
• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love.… — Thomas Carlyle
• Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez
• There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten… — Lord Chesterfield
• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days… — Lord Chesterfield
• No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill

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