#contempt

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. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#be true #been #contempt #deal #demoralized

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#equal #everywhere #i #me #men

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #bites #broadcasters #contempt #down

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#contempt #hold #just #may #parents

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. ↗

— Xenophon

#best #contempt #general #himself #leads

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#contempt #defeats #end #esteem #into

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. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#anarchy #become #becomes #breeds #contempt

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes. ↗

— Paul Lazarsfeld

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #politics #votes

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. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#any #church #contempt #down #get

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#contempt #defense #despised #feelings #own