Contempt Quotes - Page 22

• The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.

  Harold Russell

  Military, Civilization, Issues

  Letter to President Harry S. Truman, www.imdb.com. April 11, 1951.

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• A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Men, Hatred

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• The history of governmentally established religion, both in England and in this country, showed that whenever government had allied itself with one particular form of religion, the inevitable result had been that it had incurred the hatred, disrespect and even contempt of those who held contrary beliefs.

  Hugo Black

  Country, Government, Hatred

  Writing for the court, Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 1962.

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• Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Nature, Surprise, Inscrutable

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• There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.

  Pindar

  Ambition, Hunting, Hands

  Pindar (1942). “Some Odes of Pindar: In New English Versions”

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• Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

  Hilaire Belloc

  Real, Writing, Sailing

  Hilaire Belloc (1971). “The Silence of the Sea, and Other Essays”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.

  John Carroll

  Self, Order, Giving

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• I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Moving, Pride

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1116, e-artnow

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• Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Self, Righteousness, Manifestation

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Doors, Self

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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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• Do not be ashamed of being poor, or of asking alms. Receive what is given you with humility, and accept a refusal meekly. Frequently call to mind Our Lady's journey into Egypt with her Holy Child, and of all the poverty, contempt and suffering they endured. If you follow their example you will indeed be rich amid your poverty.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Children, Humility, Journey

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.211, Catholic Way Publishing

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• The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Records, Amusement

  Charles Fort (2014). “Wild Talents”, p.67, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.

  John Muir

  Life, Gratitude, Blessed

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.693, The Mountaineers Books

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• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  William Osler

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

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• All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.

  Philip Guston

  Art, Needs, Trouble

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hate, Practice, Vocabulary

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Jan 10, 2017

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• Poor Englishwomen! When it comes to their clothes- well, the French reaction is a shrug, the Italian reaction a spreading of the hands and a lifting of the eyes and the American reaction simply one of amused contempt.

  James Laver

  Eye, Italian, Hands

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• The imitator treads a beaten walk, and with all his diligence can only find a few flowers or branches untouched by his predecessor, the refuse of contempt, or the omissions of negligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Flower, Omission, Branches

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.182

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• Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Horse, Laughter, Fun

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Forgiveness, Silly, Pride

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• "Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt-for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Knowing, Different, Obscurity

  "The Radical". Book by C. C. Shackford, vol. 7, p. 329, 1870.

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• The knight departing for new adventures offends his lady, yet she has nothing but contempt for him if he remains at her feet.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Adventure, Knights, Feet

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• There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

  Henry Ford

  Inspiring, Education, Attitude

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.166, 谷月社

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