One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Toni Morrison

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

Only the contemptible fear contempt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
William Hazlitt

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
Cesar Chavez

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Henry Bolingbroke

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

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Jean Rostand

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

Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
Jack Kevorkian

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

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

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

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

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. Mencken

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Emma Lazarus

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

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs