Contempt Quotes
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We became more familiar with Bernard Leach, and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything that he said was not necessarily what we were thinking. That doesn't mean it was wrong, but Leach was a person out of a different generation.
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The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.
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I think psychologically Margaret Thatcher is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there with a woman who lived the unexamined life, and lived it deliberately, and who has contempt for history, even her own.
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Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts.
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The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.
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When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.
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Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, Those who can, do, those who cant, teach, forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.
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There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.
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I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.
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Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime.
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Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
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One who forced another was beneath contempt. One who needed to was despised.
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Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.
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There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
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He that searches for praise will often find contempt.
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Our contempt for others proves nothing but the illiberality and narrowness of our own views.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
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Slavery naturally tends to destroy all sense of justice and equity. It puffs up the mind with pride: teaches youth a habit of looking down upon their fellow creatures with contempt, esteeming them as dogs or devils, and imagining themselves beings of superior dignity and importance, to whom all are indebted. This banishes the idea, and unqualifies the mind for the practice of common justice.
