Contempt Quotes - Page 29

• If the essence of cynicism consists in preferring nature to art, virtue to beauty and science; in not bothering about the letter of things -- to which the Stoic strictly adheres -- but in looking up to the spirit of things; in absolute contempt of all economic values and political splendor, and in courageous defence of the rights of independent freedom; then Christianity would be nothing but universal cynicism.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Independent, Rights

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

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• Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

  John Armstrong

  Sex, Revenge, Mean

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

  Juvenal

  Laughter, Mind, Poverty

  Juvenal (1806). “The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, tr. into Engl. verse, by W. Gifford, with notes”, p.84

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• But it is recognized that punishment for the abuse of the liberty accorded to the press is essential to the protection of the public, and that the common law rules that subject the libeler to responsibility for the public offense, as well as for the private injury, are not abolished by the protection extended in our constitutions. The law of criminal libel rests upon that secure foundation. There is also the conceded authority of courts to punish for contempt when publications directly tend to prevent the proper discharge of judicial functions.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Responsibility, Law, Punishment

  "Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697". Judicial opinion, 1931.

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• Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest; out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Sea, Faithful

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.423

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• My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case, quite frankly, presumed familiarity has led to unfamiliarity, unfamiliarity has led to contempt, and contempt has led to profound ignorance.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Believe, Ignorance

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fall, Greatness, Envy

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• If contempt of the world and heavenly affection is a necessary temper of christians, it is necessary that this temper appear in the whole course of their lives, in their manner of using the world, because it can have no place anywhere else.

  William Law

  Christian, World, Affection

  William Law (1739). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: Adapted to the State and Condition of All Orders of Christians. By William Law, A.M.”, p.7

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• I have nothing but contempt for the deceitful thing men call 'happiness,' and find myself with no choice but to push my characters, whom I pour my heart and soul out to create, into the abyss of tragedy.

  Gen Urobuchi

  Happiness, Writing, Heart

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• This is the simple discovery which we must confront. We were given a place in the creation, with a beauty beyond telling, and we have failed to care for it. And as our collective contempt for the non-human world has intensified, so has our contempt for each other. We have failed to care for each other.

  Robert Jensen

  Simple, Discovery, World

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• My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.

  Robert Southwell

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.57

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• Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fun, Giving Up, Believe

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Friendship, Mind, Sorrow

  Oliver Goldsmith (1868). “The vicar of Wakefield, poems, and essays”, p.258

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• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

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• Coming at twenty to his father's house, which was a very sink of filthy debauchery, he, chaste and pure as he was, simply withdrew in silence when to look on was unbearable, but without the slightest sign of contempt or condemnation. His father, who had once been in a dependent position, and so was sensitive and ready to take offense, met him at first with distrust and sullenness.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Father, Silence, House

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• If you will not have it thus: if in the pride of power, if in contempt of reason and reliance upon force, you say we shall not go, but shall remain as subjects to you, then, gentlemen of the North, a war is to be inaugurated the like of which men have not seen.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Pride, Men

  Jefferson Davis (1963). “The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (Complete)”, p.757, Library of Alexandria

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• We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

  C. S. Lewis

  Country, Humility, Giving

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• It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

  William Shenstone

  Money, Littles, Infinite

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• Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

  Aesop

  Running, Risk, Trying

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Contempt is the only way to triumph over calumny.

  Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise de Maintenon

  Disrespect, Triumph, Way

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• It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Look Up, Manuals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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• Ronald Reagan is the first modern President whose contempt for the facts is treated as a charming idiosyncrasy.

  James David Barber

  President, Firsts, Facts

  "On Bended Knee: The Press and the Reagan Presidency". Book by Mark Hertsgaard, 1988.

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• It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Careers, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The Political and Miscellaneous Works of Thomas Paine ...”

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• Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Fashion

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