Contempt Quotes - Page 19

• The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.

  Fouad Ajami

  Spring, Men, Discovery

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• With health care, once you set yourself up as the source for people's health care, not insurance, you own them. That way you have total control over how they must live in order to qualify for health care. And that's what Marxists want. Marxists and leftists do not trust individuals. They have contempt individuals won't do the right thing, the right thing being defined by what Marxists want.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Care, Individual, Marxist

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Practice, Names

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• Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

  A. C. Dixon

  Giving, May, Christianity

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• Poverty and contempt generally go hand-in-hand in this world.

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Hands, World, Poverty

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.355

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• Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.

  Tim LaHaye

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

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• I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for.

  George Carlin

  Disappointment, Mistake, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion, although we might the clergy and bring them into contempt where we could: but to establish a system of state - we said national - schools, from which all religion was to be excluded.

  Orestes Brownson

  Christian, Religious, School

  Orestes Augustus Brownson (1833). “An Address on Intemperance: Delivered in Walpole, N.H. February 26, 1833”

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• In our proud love affair with ourselves we pour contempt, whether we know it or not, on the worth of God's glory. As our pride pours contempt upon God's glory, His righteousness obliges Him to pour wrath upon our pride.

  John Piper

  Pride, Wrath, Proud

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.32, Baker Books

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• I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Real

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• [Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

  David Hume

  Veils, Arms, Opinion

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4460, Delphi Classics

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• ... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Doing Nothing

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “Willing”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

  Horace Walpole

  Money, Men, Hands

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• When I survey the wondrous cross
  On which the Prince of Glory died,
  My richest gain I count but loss,
  And pour contempt on all my pride.

  Isaac Watts

  Humility, Pride, Loss

  1707 Hymns and Spiritual Songs, 'Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ'.

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• It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.

  Stendhal

  Husband, Revenge, Blow

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.140, Tyché

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• So face with calm that heritage
  And earn contempt before the age.

  Allen Tate

  Age, Faces, Calm

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Greatness, Men, Feelings

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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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• Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

  John Osborne

  Laughter, Grace, Sainthood

  John Osborne, Anthony Creighton, Arnold Wesker, Bernard Kops (1964). “Epitaph for George Dillon”

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• There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

  Floyd Patterson

  Hate, Thinking, People

  "In Defense of Cassius Clay" by Floyd Patterson, www.esquire.com. June 5, 2016.

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• I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.

  Nick Lowe

  Artist, Careers, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opponents, Failing, Should

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

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• Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known, than their crimes; and, if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred or awkward, he will hate you more, and longer, than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Silly, Men

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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