Contempt Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.

  Harold Ramis

  Leader, Accomplish

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Scandal is the sport of its authors, the dread of fools, and the contempt of the wise.

  William Benton Clulow

  Sports, Wise, Scandal

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.137

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want. Familiarity breeds contempt, people say. But I've found, for creative things, familiarity breeds peace of mind, because you realize you know someone better. You trust each other. You know not to take things a certain way, or a wrong way. You get to where you don't have to waste quite so much time with diplomacy. Things are a little more efficient.

  Edward Norton

  People, Creative, Mind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Yield, Ease, May

  William Alexander, “Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre”

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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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• The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Secret, Desire, Degradation

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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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• The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty, the reverence for tradition, the submission to discipline and the rigor of self-control.

  Kenyon Cox

  Art, Self, Discipline

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• We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Past, Sometimes, Praise

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• You've got to shake your fists at lightning now, you've got to roar like forest fire You've got to spread your light like blazes all across the sky They're going to aim the hoses on you, show 'em you won't expire Not till you burn up every passion, not even when you die Come on now, you've got to try, if you're feeling contempt, well then you tell it If you're tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it Condemned to wires and hammers, strike every chord that you feel That broken trees and elephant ivories conceal

  Joni Mitchell

  Jesus, Passion, Tired

  Song: Judgement of the Moon and Stars, Album: For the Roses, 1972

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• Every argument that Margaret Thatcher ever made internationally didn't have a great deal to do with her contempt for Communism - she never really got into that. What she talked about was giving freedom to tens of millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe. She was an inspirational leader when it came to discussing her belief in freedom. More visceral and moral.

  Brian Mulroney

  People, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Attitude, Cities, Yuppies

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• The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

  William Osler

  Medicine, Way, Common

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• Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Teacher, Mean, Men

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to").

  Gore Vidal

  Father, Lying, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Dec 03, 2014

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