Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
You can have no influence over those for whom you have underlying contempt.
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
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