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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Louis D. Brandeis
Government
Man
People
Law
Example
Become
Every
Our
Anarchy
Invites
Unto
Contempt
Himself
Becomes
Breeds
Teaches
Whole
Every Man
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez
Culture
Own
Disrespect
Other
Contempt
Does
Cultures
Require
Preservation
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Religion
Country
Sign
See
Rites
Contempt
Surer
Than
Decay
Held
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
Eyes
Seen
Think
Nuts
Vanishing
Look
Contempt
Am
Amazed
Dogs
Quickly
Convinced
Humans
Basically
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller
Feelings
Unwanted
Own
Defense
Despised
Weak
Weapon
Contempt
Against
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Soul
Eyes
World
Looking
Sense
Others
Through
Self
Contempt
Looks
Always
Tape
Sensation
Pity
Measuring
Amused
Peculiar
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
Today
Truth
Culture
Reality
People
Garbage
Misinformation
Journalism
Stuffed
Most
Contempt
Real
Overrun
American
Lack
Being
Form
Information
Ordinary
Disinformation
Lowest
Lowest Form
Popular
Popular Culture
Lives
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine
Man
Atheist
Humanity
Holding
Medicine
Philosophy
Consists
Argue
Like
Dead
Contempt
Authority
Convert
Scripture
Use
Reason
Who
Whose
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism.
Carl Bernstein
Truth
Culture
Reality
People
Misinformation
Journalism
Most
Contempt
Real
Lack
Form
Information
Lowest
Lowest Form
Popular
Popular Culture
Lives
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp
Time
Live
Universe
Changing
Side
Address
Once
Those
Outcast
Find
Contempt
Without
Metropolis
Expanding
Human
Suburbs
Inhabited
Who
Eventually
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
People
Black
Understanding
Everybody
Else
Totally
About
Bear
Brunt
Annoyed
Contempt
Smiling
Always
Demons
Suddenly
Why
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
Music
Mistake
Intelligence
Earned
Rank
Has-Been
Would
Spinal
Given
He
Since
Joyfully
Contempt
Him
Been
Brain
Who
Large
File
Marches
Suffice
Cord
If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.
Antonin Scalia
Today
Wisdom
Courage
World
Stupidity
Christ
Fools
Brought
Sophisticated
Message
Contempt
Any
Regarded
Your
Suffer
To me, it was shocking that a government of men could look with such extreme contempt on a movement that was asking nothing except such a simple little thing as the right to vote.
Alice Paul
Government
Me
Vote
Simple
Men
Nothing
Extreme
Except
Could
Look
Contempt
Shocking
Movement
Little
Asking
Little Thing
Right
Thing
Just as people behave to me, so do I behave to them. When I see that a person despises me and treats me with contempt, I can be as proud as any peacock.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Me
People
Despises
See
Contempt
Proud
Person
Behave
Any
Just
Them
Peacock
Treats
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Love
Great
Man
Hero
Great Man
Only
Contempt
Glory
Create
Creates
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst
Hope
Anxiety
Fear
Comedy
Defiance
Laughter
Face
Back
Contempt
Inhale
Creep
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
Henry Rollins
Buy
Me
People
Black
Some People
Fighting
Live
Other
I See
See
Some
Outlets
Retail
Cheap
Weight
Over
Contempt
Insult
Frenzy
Without
Friday
Items
Wallet
Human
Crap
Break
China
Customers
Full
Showing
Downgrade
Each
Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness
People
Disguise
Hatred
Other
Contempt
Human
Race
Human Race
Elegant
In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.
Toni Morrison
Nothing
Other
Else
Immigrant
Color
Contempt
Becoming
American
Common
Europe
I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
Barbara Kruger
You
Photography
Yourself
Problems
Power
Too
Other
Others
Projecting
Out
Finding
Feel
Toward
Particularly
Contempt
Within
Lot
Might
Street
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.
Donella Meadows
Kind
Would
Objects
Support
Fellow
Contempt
Fellow Human Beings
Always
Human
Refused
Human Beings
Mean
Them
Engaging
Beings
Need
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Man
Obey
Law
Will
Laws
Contempt
Make
Cannot
Serve
Bring
I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.
Emma Lazarus
People
Hatred
Community
Setting
Strife
Favorite
Favorite People
General
Fact
Perfectly
Towards
Between
Remotely
Contempt
Hint
Am
Stirring
Up
Accused
Us
Barriers
Even
Conscious
Tone
Two
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken
Only
Contempt
Cure
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy
Compassion
Face
Contempt
Human
Human Face
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