Contempt Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak,…

— Scott Spencer

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his…

— Edmund Burke

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

— Alice Miller

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…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.

— Alexander Smith

A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.

— Ambrose Bierce

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

— Samuel Johnson

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

— Rod Serling