Contempt Quotes - Page 6

• What our contempts do often hurl from us,
  We wish it ours again.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.185

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• These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature, and, instead of lifting their eyes to the God of the mountains, lift them to the Almighty Dollar.

  John Muir

  Nature, Eye, Perfect

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.817, Library of America

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• Rights don't come from human documents. The very idea is only worthy of contempt. Human documents are nothing but pieces of paper, they are nothing but words--until by will, and conscience, and courage, and commitment, human beings turn them into reality.

  Alan Keyes

  Commitment, Reality, Rights

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• Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Religious, Jesus, Real

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• Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  Horace

  Nature, Science, Foolish

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• Valor is the contempt of death and pain.

  Tacitus

  Pain, Valor

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• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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• The rich believe that they're different and that it is their right to pay a much lower tax rate. The response that you see from people on Wall Street, their dismissal and their almost contempt for the concerns about their culpability in the financial crisis, about the income inequality, shows that they are completely out of touch.

  Robin Wells

  Wall, Believe, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Compliments and flattery oftenest excite my contempt by the pretension they imply; for who is he that assumes to flatter me? To compliment often implies an assumption of superiority in the complimenter. It is, in fact, a subtle detraction.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Facts, Assuming, Assumption

  Henry David Thoreau (1929). “Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer”

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• Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Iron, Hatred, Scorpions

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.46

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• The attack upon Korea was an outright breach of the peace and a violation of the Charter of the United Nations. By their actions in Korea, Communist leaders have demonstrated their contempt for the basic moral principles on which the United Nations is founded. This is a direct challenge to the efforts of the free nations to build the kind of world in which men can live in freedom and peace.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Korea, Usa

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.

  Honore de Balzac

  Race, Land, Care

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• It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Spiritual, Doctrine

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• Cats have a contempt of speech. Why should they talk when they can communicate without words?

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Cat, Speech, Should

  Lilian Jackson Braun (2006). “Two Cats, Three Tales”, p.68, Penguin

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• The universal religion - contempt for women.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Feminism, Universal

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• A certain amount of contempt for the material employed to express an idea is indispensable to the purest realization of this idea.

  Man Ray

  Ideas, Realization, Certain

  Man Ray (1934). “Photographs by Man Ray: 105 Works, 1920-1934”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Degenerates, Human Nature, Pity

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• Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self Esteem, Heaven, Delight

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• Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

  Will Eisner

  Historical, Reason, Whole Life

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• We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.

  Adrienne Rich

  Lying, Men, Political

  Adrienne Cécile Rich (1977). “Women and honor: some notes on lying”

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• Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Ignorance, Character, Vanity

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de la Bruyere, Volume II, Chapter XI, 1688.

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• Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Writing, Expression, Ideas

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: 1799-1803”, p.321, Cosimo, Inc.

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• He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Agriculture, Names

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• Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

  William Kristol

  Senior, Country, Military

  "A Note on Romney’s Arrogant and Stupid Remarks". www.weeklystandard.com. September 18, 2012.

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• The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ruins, Manners, States

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.244

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