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Tag Name "Contempt" (413)

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Somebody once told me that if you laugh at a George Bush joke, or you send an email cartoon to your friends that makes Bush look like a fool, you feel like you've done something significant. But really, what have you actually done? Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
Harold Ramis
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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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Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.
Oriana Fallaci
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Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.
Paul Wolfowitz
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Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.
John Godfrey Saxe
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Admiration for ourselves and our institutions is too often measured by our contempt and dislike for foreigners.
William Ralph Inge
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Familiarity gives rise to contempt.
Aesop
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Women are an enslaved population - the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. Women are forced into committing sexual acts with men that violate integrity because the universal religion - contempt for women - has as its first commandment that women exist purely as sexual fodder for men.
Andrea Dworkin
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I am engaged in answering that Italian buffoon, Mazotti, whose views upon the larval development of the tropical termites have excited my derision and contempt . . .
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill
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Just expressing contempt for your leaders doesn't really accomplish anything.
Harold Ramis
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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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If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south.
Martin Cruz Smith
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Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with actual people. It’s all one big endless loop. We like the mirror and the mirror likes us. To friend a person is merely to include the person in our private hall of flattering mirrors.
Jonathan Franzen
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Atheism is an exercise in intellectual contempt.
Ravi Zacharias
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Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
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Tolerance is a placid contempt.
Mason Cooley
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
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Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
Apuleius
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Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace out of a sea of troubles into a haven of rest out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.
John Bunyan
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Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.
Thucydides
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There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
Thomas Mann
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Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.
Eric Hoffer
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We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels for his country.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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