#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

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

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

#better #contempt #god #him #only

The pollution they produce, market, sell, and show to billions around the world is at its core contemptuous of the country that gave them better lives than nearly 100 percent of everybody who's ever lived. And they pass that contempt along for everyone to see. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#around #better #billions #contempt #contemptuous

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 C. Smith

#call #city #close #come #contempt

Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#contempt #feel #got #i #i feel

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

— Cesar Chavez

#culture #cultures #disrespect #does #other

You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#contempt #mockery #perfection #ridicule #beauty

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

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#deprive #grave #life #may #most