Contempt Quotes

I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

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.

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.

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.

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

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.

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.

I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books. But when you have laws, you breed contempt if you don't enforce them.

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.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.

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.

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.

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.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

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

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

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

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

This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

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

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.

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

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.