Contempt Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

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.

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

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.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

Compassion is contempt with a human face.

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.