Disdain Quotes - Page 5

• The women take so little stock
  In what I do or say
  They'd sooner leave their cosseting
  To hear a jackass bray.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Littles, Jackasses

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.14, Hayes Barton Press

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• Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Would Be, Height, Too Much

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• No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

  Derek R. Audette

  Art, Matter, Stills

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• I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Men, Self

  William Cowper (1811). “Poems”, p.237

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• In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pride, Arrogance, Prosperity

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 B.C..

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• Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descry.

  Thomas Gray

  Adventure, Littles, Reign

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• In an era when museum curators were busy introducing the public to photographs of daily life taken by Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Diane Arbus, why did they simultaneously disdain paintings depicting the same kind of people?

  Burton Silverman

  Taken, Museums, People

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• I believe women who are supported by men are prostitutes, that is that, and I am heartbroken to live through a time where Wall Street money means these women are not treated with due disdain.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Heartbroken, Wall, Believe

  "Elizabeth Wurtzel Confronts Her One-Night Stand of a Life". www.thecut.com. January 6, 2013.

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• I remember when I heard the words "Biblical criticism" in my town, it was with disdain: "Biblical criticism? How dare you?".

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Criticism, Towns

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There's actually a disdain for the conversation about audience in the art world. Artist to artist, if you say, "What do you think about audience?" they would probably say, "I don't think about audience, I only think about my work," yet the audience is such an important part.

  Eric Fischl

  Art, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those spaces that enable an experience of the common good are now the object of disdain by right-wing and liberal politicians, anti-public intellectuals and an army of media pundits.

  Henry Giroux

  Army, Media, Wings

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I first knew Bob Dylan, he lived in the Village. And for a man who, years after, would disdain publicity or any attempts at interviews, whenever I'd write something about him, he'd be on the street corner saying, `When's it going to run? When's it going to run?' But I must say that album that was - it was the second album he did, and though I've never been a fan of his guitar-playing, he did - I have to admit, he did catch the Zeitgeist of the time.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Writing, Men

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

  Nat Hentoff

  Thinking, Wife, Bills

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The core of America is not racist. It is not hostile to women. It is increasingly offended by gay bashing. Yet it abhors government waste. It believes strongly in fiscal responsibility such as balanced budgets. It is pro-economic growth. It is concerned about the environment. It is intolerant of people on welfare who disdain the notion of work. But it wants poor kids to have school lunches and it wants to spend money to have good schools. In sum, most Americans are sensible, good-hearted, and prudent. The issue, then, is whether there is a political party that can welcome them home.

  Paul Tsongas

  Party, Believe, Home

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• Donald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.

  David Remnick

  Thinking, Rights, Firsts

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.

  William Styron

  Book, Writing, Past

  William Styron (1993). “This Quiet Dust and Other Writings”, Vintage

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• Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Able, Endure, Terror

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.3, Vintage

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• When President Bush sees America, he sees only a military superpower. I see a moral and idealistic beacon. Mr. Bush may talk about democracy all he wants, but it is not democracy to wilfully disdain and heap scorn on world opinion. We do not command moral leadership by starting pre-emptive wars.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, President

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you increase the number of rockets you build and you buy, then it's the scale of the economy, the price is going to come down. It may not come down in order of magnitude, but if several commercial ventures start being successful and there becomes a bigger market for these rockets, the price will naturally come down a bit. That's why I think Excalibur Almaz, we're a little bit unique in that we don't look at our so-called competition with disdain, we want them to succeed and it needs to have more than one player. Even if we are successful, we couldn't handle the entire market ourselves.

  Leroy Chiao

  Successful, Unique, Player

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't think we've ever had a president who has more disdain for Washington than Barack Obama does, and he does things with executive orders or rules that you don't even see.

  Rick Perry

  Thinking, Order, President

  Source: stream.org

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• I certainly had qualms about writing my piece in the first place, since I knew I couldn't express my disdain for many of Rev. Falwell's teachings. But I don't regret having written about the sides of Rev. Falwell that had nothing to do with politics or religion - his grandkids, his ministry for ex-alcoholics, his penchant for practical jokes. I think it's important to recognize the humanity in everyone, even those we strongly disagree with.

  Kevin Roose

  Regret, Teaching, Writing

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• Many people ... prefer to describe themselves as progressives rather than liberals. To some extent that's a response to the decades-long propaganda campaign conducted by movement conservatives, which has been quite successful in making Americans disdain the word liberal but much less successful in reducing support for liberal policies.

  Paul Krugman

  Successful, Long, People

  Paul Krugman (2009). “The Conscience of a Liberal”, p.268, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is time to celebrate the New Black Americans - those who have sealed the Deal, who aren't beholden to liberal indulgence any more than they are to the disdain of the hard Right. It is time to praise blacks who are merely undeniable in their individuality and exemplary in their levels of achievement .

  John Ridley

  Achievement, Black, Individuality

  "Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma". Book by D. Marvin Jones, 2013.

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• A blind determination to save the prestige of personal existence, rather than, through an impartial disdain for its impotence and entanglement, at least to detach it from the background of universal delusion, is triumphing almost everywhere.

  Walter Benjamin

  Determination, Growth, Blind

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings, Edmund Jephcott (2016). “One-Way Street”, p.37, Harvard University Press

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• Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

  Emilia Lanier

  Pain, Challenges, Faults

  1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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