Contempt Quotes

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on.
Joyce Maynard

Life, Long, Nothing

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams

Human, Democracy, Give

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Duer Miller

Feelings, Against, Weak

The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.
Jello Biafra

Rock, Down, Punk

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding

Themselves, Deserve, Bear

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.
Michael Stipe

Country, Away, Reason

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull

Politics, Struggle, Job

Compassion is contempt with a human face.
John McCarthy

Human, Compassion, Face

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Orson Scott Card

Sometimes, Motivation, Wonder

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Love, Great, Hero

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

Nothing, Down, Hell

In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings.
Ryszard Kapuscinski

Feelings, Order, Cherish

Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.
Paul Weyrich

Life, Nothing, Country

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
John Gay

Rich, Gentleman, Company

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
Mary Garden

Sex, Children, Child

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see.
John Ratzenberger

Country, Around, Everyone

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.
Susie Orbach

Today, Become, Moral

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
Rick Moody

Family, Important, Treat

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
Raoul Vaneigem

Life, Live, Before

I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote 'In Contempt' was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.
Christopher Darden

Family, Money, Selfish

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

Law, Cannot, Bring

Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
Robert Crumb

Life, America, Adult

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czeslaw Milosz

Truth, Reality, Lie

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
Toby Young

Success, Respect, Failure

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne

Another, Show, Ask

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.
Roy Hattersley

Evil, Acceptance, Breeds

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.
Chaka Khan

Philosophy, Breeds

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
Tom Lantos

Morning, Children, Human

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

Time, Government, Act

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

Proper, Instrument, Apparently

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