#contempt

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. ↗

— Cesar Chavez

#culture #cultures #disrespect #does #other

Haters are those, that never were given any chances, that blew their chances, or that never took the chance. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#covet #despise #detest #dislike #envy

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news. ↗

— John le Carre

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When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

#contemptible #i #look #man #men

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

— Emma Lazarus

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In the midst of these fine gentlemen with their great names and their ancient traditions of respectability, the two women sat face to face, exchanging tender glances, triumphant and supreme in the tranquil abuse of their sex, and their open contempt for the male. And the gentlemen applauded them. ↗

— Émile Zola

#gender-roles #respect

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt. ↗

— Minna Antrim

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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#already #been #brain #contempt #cord

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

— Henry Fielding

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

— Jack Kevorkian

#enjoyment #like #looks #smile #sneer