Contempt Quotes - Page 17

• Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, Conviction, Genuine

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by T. Bailey Saunders (Volume 2, Chapter 24, § 324), 1851.

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• Fear can be the result of admiration, or it can be a symptom of contempt.

  Julie Klausner

  Fear, Admiration, Results

  Julie Klausner (2010). “I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated”, p.67, Penguin

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• America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

  Toby Young

  Thinking, America, People

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• If admiration were not generally deemed the exclusive property of the rich, and contempt the constant lackey of poverty, the love of gain would cease to be an universal problem.

  William Godwin

  Gains, Poverty, Admiration

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• Who's gonna give me a TV show? I didn't work for an impeached, disbarred President who was held in contempt by a federal judge. That's what they look for in objective reporters.

  Ann Coulter

  Tv Shows, Giving, Judging

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.228, Crown Forum

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• Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

  Brendan Behan

  Prison, Jailer

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• The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Children, Responsibility, Liberty

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• What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Wall, House, Graffiti

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• I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

  Gertrude Stein

  Doe, Familiarity

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• Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

  Plutarch

  Men, Differences, Bravery

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• Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.

  William Ralph Inge

  Admiration, Institutions, Foreigners

  William Ralph Inge (1925). “Outspoken essays”

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• He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.'

  Anthony Powell

  Delicate Life, Vintage, Mind

  Anthony Powell (2010). “A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time”, p.188, University of Chicago Press

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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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• Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted?

  Henry Van Dyke

  Suffering, Generations, Heritage

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• Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.

  James Lileks

  Heart, People, Free Will

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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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• Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.

  Allan Pease

  Mirrors, Expression, Doe

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• He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't.

  Valerie Solanas

  Hate, Twilight, Feelings

  "SCUM Manifesto". Book by Valerie Solanas, p. 1, 1967.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Never be silent! Make your opinions known, and do not fear retribution for speaking your mind! The only ones who will aggressively try to silence you are the ones who do not respect the liberties and rights of the individual. Those people deserve our contempt, and when you draw them out of the shadows by exercising your civil right to freedom of speech, they will expose themselves for what they truly are.

  Derek R. Audette

  Exercise, Rights, People

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• The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Ambition, Order, Desire

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1719, Delphi Classics

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Reality, Air

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Children, Son

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