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Tag Name "Contempt" (402)

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contempt is as frequently produced at first sight as love.
Herman Melville
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Contempt mates well with pity.
Gloria Naylor
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Alice Miller
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Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
Edmund Burke
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Contempt for the things people choose of their own free will is, at its heart, contempt for free will.
James Lileks
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Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
Mason Cooley
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Contempt, thought Tyrion, the universal tongue.
George R. R. Martin
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Contempt the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.
Ambrose Bierce
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Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.
Ann Coulter
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
Edmund Burke
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Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives?
Paul Bourget
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Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.
Martin Luther
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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
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there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.
Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.
Philip K. Dick
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Tolerance is a placid contempt.
Mason Cooley
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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.
Plutarch
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This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.
Matt Haig
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People must not attempt to impose their own 'truth' on others. The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves contempt for those who may think differently. Truth imposes itself solely by the force of its own truth.
Pope John Paul II
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and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. I'm a size twelve, she says.
Meg Cabot
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For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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