98 Contempt Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. John Reed

Government Time People Every Relations Weak Excites Masses Contempt Authorities Refusal Act Rebellious

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Will Dangers Constant Contempt Them Breed Exposure

Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love. Marshall McLuhan

Love True Love Hate True Contempt Accompany Antipathy Views

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. Neil MacGregor

Long Beginning Gone Virtually Ran Indeed East Propaganda About Habit Wrote Contempt Said Misunderstanding How Affairs Edward Very Greek Middle Middle East Little Centuries Century Europe

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. Nicolaus Copernicus

Work Me Fear Carefully Considered Abandon Had Absurdity Induced Contempt Because Begun Which View Apparent Therefore Novelty Nearly Utterly

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. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Good Man Together Wife Will Nights Intimacy Degenerate Lay Absolutely Soon Days Well Contempt Mistress Pass His Infallibly Familiarity Disgust Aside Breeding Coarse Good Breeding Productive Who Ever

Have you noticed that the meanest, shrillest, least compassionate and most heartless people who are well off and have all the medical coverage they'll ever need are seemingly sickened beyond cure by the notion that someone who literally cannot afford health care is somehow beneath contempt and must be vilified and humiliated? Richard Belzer

Health You People Care Humiliated Beneath Must Somehow Someone Seemingly Beyond Most Well Contempt Health Care Least Coverage Off Cure Heartless Afford Literally Cannot Meanest Noticed Notion Who Vilified Compassionate Ever Medical Need

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

Edge Though Admiration Takes Contempt Off Familiarity May Breed

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict - which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt. Noam Chomsky

Terrorism Justice Obligations Problem Law Way Right Way Evidence Tribunal Collected Exactly Followed Brought Highest Contempt Course Court Verdict Dealt Existing Which Dismissed Nicaragua International International Law Right Received Treaty

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals. Aleksandr Lebed

Both Equal Contempt Left Radicals Right

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. Charles de Gaulle

Prestige Mystery Contempt Without Familiarity Familiarity Breeds Breeds

Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point. Chiang Kai-shek

Knowledge Enemy Strong Our Weak Point Part Contempt His China

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt. Dorothy Allison

Class Background Contempt Am Accustomed Derive Strengths

One predictor for divorce is contempt, which to me is just another word for disrespect. Elizabeth Banks

Me Word Disrespect Divorce Contempt Another Just Which Predictor

I've done pretty well as a professional fed-up. The tools of my trade so far have been irony, tongue-in-cheek mockery, and supercilious contempt, but these are highly civilized weapons designed for 18th-century French salons. Florence King

Tools Weapons Pretty Civilized Highly French Well Contempt Trade Been Mockery Irony Done Far Professional Designed Tongue-In-Cheek

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church. Frank McCourt

Me Church Nothing Hell Down Had Idea Institution Contempt Get Any Just Afterlife Held Rid Now Kept

The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up. George Packer

Freedom People Worship Libertarian Easiest Individual Individual Freedom Never Had Contempt Up Convention Social Really Who Grow Grow Up

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign. George Packer

Today Politics Ignorance World Country White Conservatism Spirit About Given Raw Contempt Identity Trump Campaign Expertise Republicans Incendiary Sarah Sarah Palin Appeals Whose Palin

The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy. Harold Russell

Democracy Power Military States Must Civil Constitutional Lead Over Contempt Inevitably Issue Ultimate Lines Authority Any Whether Tolerate Actions Military Power United Away United States

Not all television scripts are created equal. And the process is ridiculous. They send you a script and want you in the next morning. That's not how acting works. You can do anything to me as an actor; I'm a very resilient guy. Just don't rush me. If you ask me to do it immediately with no time to prepare, I know you have contempt for actors. Holt McCallany

Time Morning Me You Immediately Television Rush Guy No Time Know Equal Contempt How Very Send Just Want Anything Process Script Scripts Ask Created Next Acting Next Morning Works Prepare Ridiculous Actor Resilient

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Isaac Barrow

Vile Proper Most Instrument Contempt Due Apparently Exposing Base Things

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile. Jack Kevorkian

Smile Like Contempt Looks Sneer Enjoyment

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care. Jack Kevorkian

Me You Care Honor Cite Contempt dont Care Your Your Honor

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