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.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

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

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.

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

Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.