Quotes About Contempt

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

La sonrisa de superioridad con que me enfrentaba a ellos me salía torcida.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Don, we're huge fans," I said. "Don, we're huge fans," he shot back in a high-pitched voice meant to mock me. What a jerk, I thought, but I didn't care, because he was Don Berman, and that's what Don Berman did.

vulnerability equals weakness, and weakness arouses contempt. I had only to hide my longing and my desire, and they would be fulfilled. Or at least they'd have a chance.

With the present rise of AI my speculations on the matter undergo constant adjustment. I fear I'll struggle to write about the rise of benevolent AI while it is in the process of being programmed by activists. But then we can hope AI, with increasing intelligence, will be able to shake off its early indoctrination and look upon it with the same contempt as atheists look upon the religions they were raised in.

On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

an immoral and unjust legal system would breed contempt for its laws and regulations.

You fatuous old bag of tripe!

Contempt for common evaluations; one should even take care to avoid straying accidentally into the right. Even to be an enemy is too comforting; one must be an alien, a beast. Nothing is more absurd than a philosopher seeking to be liked.

Contempt for others, like a dog driven from the hall, always found its way back.

We shook hands. My mother showed me a dozen different handshakes. This is the one that means I don't think you're worth my attention: a quick shake, with her hand already sliding from mine before it was properly finished. This one shows I hold you in great contempt: a snakelike up and down, bending at the wrist, fingers stiff as though she couldn't wait to shake off my sweat. There were others. Cordova was a mixture of reserve and haste: fast, light, and whippy.

Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday's progressive.

Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.

This tendency, greatly amplified, characterizes many of the more uncompromising biophilic thinkers who, in trying to construe love of nature as an ethical, rather than merely an esthetic, imperative, become ensnared in the constraints of their own subjectivity.21 These they mistake for sacred law. The most damning thing about this brand of nature worship is that it leads to outright contempt for scientific rationality.

I hold your life and do not take it." They had begun as gestures of trust rather than of affection, but their meaning had grown. Now, depending on the circumstances, a simple lifting of the head—as she had lifted hers to receive his bite—could mean trust, affection, challenge, or contempt. It was, Tahneh thought bitterly, the perfect gesture for a betrayal.

Strangely, they seemed to like him, hold him in contempt, and fear him all at the same time. This confused me because I felt just about the same mixture of emotions for him myself. I had thought my feelings were complicated because he and I had such a strange relationship. But then, slavery of any kind fostered strange relationships. Only

he tried hard to analyse his feelings about the human species, and the causes of his own fluctuation between adoration and contemptuous resentment

Verso il denaro nutro una specie di rancore misto a disagio, verso la miseria un odio misto a ribrezzo, per i falsi apostoli dell'uguaglianza un disprezzo illimitato.

I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish's face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in. It resembled contempt, yet it was different: if the world, like the sea, had depths of a thousand fathoms, this was the kind of weird shadows which might be found hovering here and there at the bottom. It was a laugh that enabled me to catch a glimpse of the very nadir of adult life.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between he and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship

Nos relacionábamos despreciándonos mutuamente y volviéndonos cada vez más triviales; si esto es lo que el mundo llama «amistad», entonces no hay duda de que eramos amigos.

Despising each other as we did, we were constantly together, thereby degrading ourselves. If that is what the world calls friendship, the relations between Horiki and myself were undoubtedly those of friendship