#contempt

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#contempt #dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. ↗

— Ira Gershwin

#adds #contempt #due #hair #inspired

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

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

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

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Chaka Khan

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #philosophy

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#disguise #elegant #happiness #hatred #human

The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to women is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#contemptuous #degrading #degree #last #regard

To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#cannot #contempt #into #law #laws