Contempt Quotes - Page 9

• Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Son, Our World, Enemy

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• Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hands, People, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.38, Macmillan

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• If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Problem, Despise

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• Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

  Saint Augustine

  Pride, Proud, Source

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.217, Oxford Paperbacks

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• What advice would I give the average homeowner to protect himself against burglars? Well, the first thing is to keep a light on in the house when you go out. It must be at least a sixty-watt bulb; anything less and the burglar will ransack the house, out of contempt for the wattage.

  Woody Allen

  Light, Average, Giving

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Suffering, Cry

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

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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.

  Thomas Harris

  Able, Emotion, Common

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right.

  George Carlin

  Real, Views, Roots

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.11, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Real, Joy, Solitude

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• I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

  Immanuel Kant

  Ignorant, Honor, Acquisition

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

  Hannah Arendt

  Laughter, Enemy, Way

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• China has been there for 3,000 years, has contempt for the barbarians, is overcoming a century of domination, and simply moves on its own. It does not get intimidated when Uncle Sam shakes his fist. That's scary.

  Noam Chomsky

  Uncles, Moving, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Scylla, Navigation, Mathematics

  Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.155, Springer Science & Business Media

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

  Allen W. Wood

  Reason, Treats, Committed

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.

  Allen W. Wood

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Regret, Hate, Envy

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• To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

  Claude Chabrol

  Stupid, Individual, Should

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• An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

  Nance O'Neil

  Art, Emotional, Perception

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• I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.

  Criss Jami

  Passion, Apathy, Hot

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.89, Criss Jami

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• If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.

  Jim Butcher

  Suicide, Feel Better, Coward

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.352, Penguin

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• I don't think that the media is ever going to be on the same stage with Donald Trump. I don't think the majority of them are ever gonna be even in the same universe. They live in two separate worlds, and they don't understand Trump's, and they have contempt for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Two

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence."

  Gordon S. Wood

  Franklin, Feels, Sentiments

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

  Bob Hawke

  Black And White, Mugabe, Mets

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Monkeys, Bears

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.68

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