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.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Contempt is a kind of gangrene which, if it seizes one part of a character, corrupts all the rest by degrees.
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
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.
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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 with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
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