Contempt Quotes - Page 25

• The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Real, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Collected Works”

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• We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Hurt, Men, Fool

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• Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Real, Cutting

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• He that searches for praise will often find contempt.

  Norm MacDonald

  Praise

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• I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

  Cris Mazza

  Attitude, Desire, Culture

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• Everything can be borne except contempt.

  Voltaire

  Scorn

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• But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: '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.'

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Loss, Sacrifice

  Margaret Thatcher (1989). “The revival of Britain: speeches on home and European affairs, 1975-1988”

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• The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, People, Hatred

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.95, Open Road Media

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• That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hypocrite, Vanity, Law

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist”, p.120, Courier Corporation

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• You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Compassion, Empathy, Feelings

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• He is a perfectly balanced batsman and knows perfectly well when to attack and when to play defensive cricket. He has developed the ability to treat bowlers all over the world with contempt and can destroy any attack with utmost ease.

  Greg Chappell

  Play, Ease, World

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• There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

  Monica Edwards

  Self Esteem, Cat, Beloved

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• The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Winning, Arrogance

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intimate and necessarily other. The classic seven-year itch may not be a case of familiarity breeding ennui and contempt, but the shock of having someone you thought you knew all too well suddenly seem a stranger. When that happens, you are compelled to either recommit to the relationship or get the hell out. There are many such times in a marriage.

  Kathleen Norris

  Seven Years, May, Classic

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• The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

  William Hazlitt

  Ignorance, Insolence, Treats

  William Hazlitt (1837). “Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.118

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• Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

  Dan Abnett

  Men, Soul, May

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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• I have a deep-seated distrust and even contempt for people who are driven by ambition to conquer the world … those who cannot control themselves and produce vast amounts of crap that no one cares about. I find it unattractive. I like the Zen artists: they’d do some work, and then they’d stop for a while.

  Saul Leiter

  Ambition, Artist, Conquer The World

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• At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Grief, Past, Profound

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.111, BoD – Books on Demand

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• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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• A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

  John Gay

  Gentleman, World, Rogues

  John Gay (2013). “The Beggar's Opera and Polly”, p.59, OUP Oxford

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• In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to consent to it. A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration. I've never received an offer from my rulers, so I certainly have not accepted one; and rather than consideration, I have received nothing but contempt from the rulers, who, notwithstanding the absence of any agreement, have indubitably threatened me with grave harm in the event that I fail to comply with their edicts.

  Robert Higgs

  Acceptance, Agreement, Events

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• I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost every other form of profitable work. This must be accompanied, second, by a haughty contempt for all the forms of work that one has established one cannot do. To these two must be joined, third, the nuttiness to believe that other people can be made to care about your opinions and views and be charmed by the way you state them. Incompetence, contempt, lunacy—once you have these in place, you are set to go.

  Joseph Epstein

  Believe, Views, Two

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Curiosity, Doubt

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• He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must immediately have the most tragical conclusion, and most terminate in destruction to the greater number, and in a total dissolution of society to the rest.

  David Hume

  Stupid, Order, Numbers

  David Hume (2013). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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