Best 152 quotes in «contempt quotes» category

Indifference is the strongest contempt.

I, too, dislike it. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers in it, after all, a place for the genuine.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

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

Man is more sensitive to the contempt that others feel towards him than to the contempt that he feels towards himself.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.

Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse predict an ailing marriage: Criticism, Defensiveness, Stonewalling and Contempt. The worst of these is contempt.

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The Elders had nothing but contempt for human emotion; they considered it their biggest weakness. Perenelle knew it was humankind's greatest strength.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible.

The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

The universal religion - contempt for women.

Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Tolerance is a placid contempt.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

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

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way you have total control over how they must live in order to qualify for health care. And that's what Marxists want. Marxists and leftists do not trust individuals. They have contempt individuals won't do the right thing, the right thing being defined by what Marxists want.

Which is ideology? Which not? You shall know them by their assertion of truth, their contempt for considered reflection, and their fear of debate.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.

Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

You will smile here at the consistency of those democratists who, when they are not on their guard, treat the humbler part of the community with the greatest contempt, whilst, at the same time they pretend to make them the depositories of all power.

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

Luther's personality as well as his teachings shows ambivalence toward authority. On the one hand he is overawed by authority—that of a worldly authority and that of a tyrannical God—and on the other hand he rebels against authority—that of the Church. He shows the same ambivalence in his attitude toward the masses. As far as they rebel within the limits he has set he is with them. But when they attack the authorities he approves of, an intense hatred and contempt for the masses comes to the fore. […] we shall show that this simultaneous love for authority and the hatred against those who are powerless are typical traits of the "authoritarian character.

[A] nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

And at once I fell in love with her, for if it is sometimes enough to make us love a woman that she should look on us with contempt, as I supposed Mlle Swann to have done, and that we should think that she can never be ours, sometimes, too, it is enough that she should look on us kindly, as Mme de Guermantes was doing, and that we should think of her as almost ours already.

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are.