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  Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

  Cesar Chavez

  Other Cultures, Diversity, Disrespect

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Beautiful, Self, Differences

  Alexander Maclaren (1859). “Sermons preached in Union chapel, Manchester”, p.34

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• If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Night, Men, Wife

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Men, Deserve

  Samuel Johnson (2011). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vols 11-13: Debates in Parliament”, p.342, Yale University Press

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• Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Important Hamlet, Instruments

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [393]

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• Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

  Yehuda Berg

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 07, 2016

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• Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

  Roy Hattersley

  Acceptance, Evil, Suffering

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• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  Smile, People, Annoyed

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ambition, Crowns, Might

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• Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is ... a normal and healthy sentiment.

  Adolf Hitler

  Pride, Race, Healthy

  "The Testament of Adolf Hitler: the Hitler-Bormann documents, February-April 1945". Book by Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, London: Cassell, (February 13, 1945), 1961.

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• The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Human Nature, Fit

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The folly of Interpreters has been, to foretell times and things by this Prophecy, as if God designed to make them Prophets. By this rashness they have not only exposed themselves, but brought the Prophecy also into contempt.
  The design of God was much otherwise. He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world.

  Isaac Newton

  Men, Design, Curiosity

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• A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Girl, Animal, Boys

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.19, Taylor Trade Publications

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• It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

  Harold Pinter

  Mirrors, Difficult, Feels

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• We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots and executions. We kill when we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and shame.In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-heartedness,all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing.

  Hermann Hesse

  War, Eye, Disrespect

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• Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.

  Baroness Orczy

  Judging, Charity, Littles

  Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Wise, Children, Father

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• The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Patience, Generations, Genius

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.237

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• In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Political, Politics, Vote

  The English Digest, Vol. 57, p. 34, 1958.

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• Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

  William Hazlitt

  Idols, May, Admiration

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1464, Delphi Classics

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• Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

  Robert Crumb

  America, Adults

  "'America has become this soulless suburban culture'" by Robert Crumb, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.

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• I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, People, Drunk

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.

  Jello Biafra

  Rocks, Roots, Ethics

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• I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

  Sophocles

  Men, Use, Kind

  "Antigone". Play by Sophocles, Line 181,

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• Self-indulgence takes many forms. A man may be self-indulgent in speech, in touch, in sight. From self-indulgence a man comes to idle speech and worldly talk, to buffoonery and cracking indecent jokes. There is self-indulgence in touching without necessity, making mocking signs with the hands, pushing for a place, snatching up something for oneself, approaching someone else shamelessly. All these things come from not having the fear of God in the soul and from these a man comes little by little to perfect contempt.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Men, Self

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