Quotes About Contempt

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

It is considered a rather cheerful axiom that all Americans distrust politicians. (No one takes the further and less cheerful step of considering just what effect this mutual contempt has on either the public or the politicians, who have, indeed, very little to do with one another.)

but the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

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.

I do not mind if a PM or leader of the opposition is single but if he or she chooses to dispense with marriage despite living with someone and having children, then I think that shows a contempt for marriage which sends an unfortunate message.

I hate Showtime, I can't stand those guys.

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, ''There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.

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

We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.

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.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.

I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.

Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of these deliberations is for them the guarantee of their own fair-mindedness, impartiality, and disinterest. To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.

Zweig viewed the Nazis as beneath contempt. Their doctrine and world outlook being so obviously ridiculous and morally odious, why waste time refuting them?

To treat all people with equal contempt and indifference is the bureaucrat's idea of equity.

Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

There is no doubt in my mind Bill Cosby was a bad boy.

Transcendence is realising that people do not deserve pity or love or compassion. People deserve contempt.